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Public notes on builds, systems, and what I am shipping. Real lessons from production AI systems, not theoretical takes.

March 2025
PhilosophyProduction

Why I stopped building demos

The gap between demo theater and production reality is where most AI projects die. Here is what I do instead.

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February 2025
MindsetOperations

The operator mindset for AI builders

Shipping is not the finish line, it is the starting point. How to think about AI systems as living infrastructure.

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January 2025
ProductionSafety

Guardrails that do not kill velocity

Logging, permissions, evals, rollback paths, without slowing down shipping. The balance I have found.

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January 2025
AgentsArchitecture

Tool calling is underrated

The real power of LLMs is not generation, it is orchestration. How I structure tool-calling agents.

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December 2024
BusinessPhilosophy

What I look for in project fit

Not every project is a good match. Here is my mental model for evaluating whether to take something on.

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