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Evergreen how-tos on building AI products, running product work on agents, and what actually holds up in production. For the news and the short takes, I'm on Medium and LinkedIn.

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My Rate Limiter Asked the Wrong Question

#AI & Agents

Drafts Yes, Sends No. The Only Agent Guardrail That Survived a Year.

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My Video Ads Measured Perfect and Still Looked Like Slides

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I Built My Own Android Car Launcher

#AI & Agents

I Rendered a Month of Video in One Night on Machines I Already Owned

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I Built an AI That Remembers Everything. Including My API Keys.

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Training-Led Acquisition: I Sold the Course, Then Gave Away the Product

#AI & Agents

Your Laptop Does the Work. Your Phone Approves It.

#AI & Agents

The Demo Was Never the Hard Part: Budgeting for the PoC-to-Production Gap

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Caveman Cuts AI Output Tokens by 65%. It Saved Me Almost Nothing.

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The One-Line Bug That Convinced Me AI in Production Is a Product Job

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The Only Signal AI Can't Fake on LinkedIn Is Specificity

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Everyone Is Vibe Coding. The First Paying Customer Is Still the Hard Part

#AI & Agents

I Closed the Checkout Tab and Built My Own Dictation App With Gemma 3 1B

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The Founder Who Won't Use His Own Product Already Knows Why Customers Churn

#AI & Agents

How to Clone Your Voice Locally on a MacBook, for Free, With VoxCPM2

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I Set 8 AI Agents Loose on My Startup While I Slept. They Filed 50 Bugs.

#Career

I Ran My Resume Through an AI 300 Times. Here's Why Fintech Roles Kept Screening Me Out.

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After 200+ Applications, I Understood the PM Resume Paradox