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  • Nov 16, 2025

    Demos Run on Embeddings. Production Runs on Structure.

    Why the gap between AI demos and shipping AI is a reliability gap, not a capability gap.

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  • Oct 30, 2025

    AI Agents Need Clearer Delegation

    What hundreds of AI conversations taught me about effective agent workflows.

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Oct 30, 2025 Now

Academic Year Begins, AI Infrastructure Ruminations, PhD Direction Reconsideration, AI Writing Interfaces

  • Oct 28, 2025

    Agent Labs Are Eating the Software World

    Why product-first AI startups will dominate the next decade while model labs build the infrastructure they run on

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  • Oct 26, 2025

    Stop Using .md for AI Agent Instructions

    Files ending in .md trigger automatic processing that breaks agent instruction files. Use dotfiles instead.

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  • Oct 26, 2025

    Mention Engineering: The Content Side of Prompt Craft

    Analysis of AI search behavior reveals why some brands get cited while others disappear in AI-generated responses

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  • Oct 25, 2025

    Serving Humans and AI Through Content Negotiation

    How I built a dual-format delivery system serving identical content to humans and AI agents with no hidden restrictions.

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  • Oct 24, 2025

    AI Agent Reasoning Failures: A Technical Autopsy

    Five concrete reasoning breakdowns from a Claude Code session and what they reveal about AI agent cognitive limitations.

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  • Oct 09, 2025

    Developer Trust Over Conversion: The 10 Touchpoint Rule

    Developers need 10+ touchpoints. Build trust through systematic signals, content, and community engagement.

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  • Oct 01, 2025

    The 20-Year Playbook: How to Build an AI Startup That Lasts

    Condensed wisdom from Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on winning the AI game over decades, not quarters

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