2025: The Year AI Became a Teammate
Left Daytona, spent summer coding full-time with AI. 2025: orchestration era, agent labs overtook model labs, AX emerged alongside DX. 2026 will figure out what 'AI as teammate' actually means.
Claude-Zhipu Parallel CLI Setup
This setup allows you to use Claude Code CLI with Zhipu's API (api.z.ai) in parallel with your existing Claude Max / Anthropic CLI installation using a separate command called claude-zhipu.
A 2026 Design Principles for AI-Native Products
In the AI era, design shifts from fixed features to malleable environments. Users don't want apps—they want capabilities. Control, reversibility, and provenance matter more than polish.
Growth Is Value Flow, Not Vanity Metrics
Growth isn't about hacking channels or vanity metrics. It's about discovering value creation and scaling it. Real growth happens when users get so much value they can't help but tell others.
Anthropic Bought Bun: Devtools Just Became AI Infrastructure
Anthropic bought Bun, but the real story is devtools are now part of the AI infrastructure layer. If you're building devtools, you're either part of a model vendor's vertical stack or you're commoditized.
Demos Run on Embeddings. Production Runs on Structure.
Production AI uses both embeddings and structure, but teams systematically underinvest in the structure layer. In high-stakes domains where 99% accuracy is a failing grade, structured data provides the reliability guarantees enterprise demands.
AI Agents Need Clearer Delegation
After analyzing hundreds of AI sessions, the successful ones shared clear patterns: subagents explore, main agents implement, and verification happens after every change.
Academic Year Begins, AI Infrastructure Ruminations, PhD Direction Reconsideration, AI Writing Interfaces
Agent Labs Are Eating the Software World
Agent labs ship product first and build infrastructure later. They turn LLMs into goal-directed systems that deliver outcomes, not just outputs. This product-first approach is capturing the real value in the AI stack.
Stop Using .md for AI Agent Instructions
Static site generators, formatters, and indexers treat .md files as content. Agent instruction files need dotfiles like .claude to avoid unwanted processing.
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