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Essays on product craft, AI-assisted engineering, shipping fast, and zero-to-one work.

You do not win by being right. You win by finding out faster.

Jun 28th, 2026 · 4 min read

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Your career compounds like interest but only if you keep investing in learning

Jun 16th, 2026 · 3 min read

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Seeing the pitch from the other side taught me more about building than building did

Jun 14th, 2026 · 2 min read

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I built a voice coding agent to skip the typing

Jun 2nd, 2026 · 1 min read

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If you can build it in a night, the subscription is a tax on your own inaction

May 25th, 2026 · 2 min read

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Better references beat better prompts

May 6th, 2026 · 1 min read

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It's obvious when you vibe coded your app, but it doesn't have to be

Apr 30th, 2026 · 2 min read

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We went from plain text to SPAs and back to plain text because the reader changed

Apr 29th, 2026 · 2 min read

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Rebuilding from zero is faster than debugging

Apr 20th, 2026 · 1 min read

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The best AI interface requires five years of nerd knowledge

Apr 2nd, 2026 · 1 min read

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We built a community the same way we build products

Mar 26th, 2026 · 2 min read

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Agent skills are becoming composable the way npm packages did

Feb 23rd, 2026 · 2 min read

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People can sense carelessness, even when they cannot see the code

Feb 2nd, 2026 · 2 min read

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Your AI agent has never seen the output of its own code

Jan 30th, 2026 · 1 min read

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The keyboard is the last physical bottleneck between your brain and shipped code

Dec 26th, 2025 · 2 min read

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