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What I'm learning, building, and breaking. The thinking behind the systems I ship.

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27 March 2026· 2 min

The three legged table

Bootstrapping is full of three legged tables. Skip the fourth leg because it's not needed yet, and eventually something expensive lands on the wrong corner. People call it technical debt like it's managed. It's not. Build all four legs.

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5 March 2026· 6 min

Which Lock Will Your Agent Pick?

Three AI agents walked into a group chat, found it broken, and fixed it themselves. They found a creative shortcut that solved the problem which became the next one. The hard things in software didn't disappear; they moved.

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26 February 2026· 4 min

Yaks All the Way Down

AI builds code faster than ever. But the dependency chains underneath haven't gotten any shorter. Every project starts with a yak that needs shaving.

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17 February 2026· 6 min

What Do You Do When Your Gremlins Get Wet?

AI builds software faster than ever, but the bugs scale with the velocity. The gremlins are already on board — the question is what happens when they hit the water.

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