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The build log of a company run through an agent staff.
Everything I've written, mapped by topic - not by me, by the same agents I build. This is what they do to a body of documents. Imagine it pointed at yours.
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all essays ->№ 01 · 01.06.26What I Built
I couldn't ship what I couldn't read
I'm a non-coder and AI writes my code. I assumed the thing slowing me down would be the building. It wasn't. The building got easy. What held me back was that I couldn't read my own codebase, and you can't ship what you can't see.
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№ 02 · 22.05.26AI Systems
I run a daily LT meeting and my whole team is software
It's 6:30am. The agenda is on my second monitor. Down the left side is a column of names - a CTO, a CISO, a head of business development, a head of products, a head of marketing, an intelligence chief, a chief of staff. None of them are people.
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№ 03 · 20.05.26Economics
The cost floor just dropped 100x. My tier policy didn't change.
Twelve days. Four open-weight model releases. The agentic-coding inference price floor moved roughly two orders of magnitude. Cost was never the bottleneck for what I'm actually shipping. Coherence was.
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I couldn't ship what I couldn't read
I'm a non-coder and AI writes my code. I assumed the thing slowing me down would be the building. It wasn't. The building got easy. What held me back was that I couldn't read my own codebase, and you can't ship what you can't see.
I run a daily LT meeting and my whole team is software
It's 6:30am. The agenda is on my second monitor. Down the left side is a column of names - a CTO, a CISO, a head of business development, a head of products, a head of marketing, an intelligence chief, a chief of staff. None of them are people.
The cost floor just dropped 100x. My tier policy didn't change.
Twelve days. Four open-weight model releases. The agentic-coding inference price floor moved roughly two orders of magnitude. Cost was never the bottleneck for what I'm actually shipping. Coherence was.
The contract that closes itself
I commissioned a build last week. Eleven slices, multiple verifiers, a real piece of infrastructure that ten other things now sit on top of. The agent on the other side read my one-page spec and refused to start.
Context Engineering Is the New Vibe Coding. Here's What It Actually Looks Like.
Everyone is talking about context engineering this week. I have been doing it for months without knowing the name. Here is what it actually looks like when you cannot read code.
Your AI Model Vendor Just Became a Security Supplier
Anthropic found thousands of zero-days with Claude Mythos and decided not to release the model publicly. I'm skeptical about the marketing. I'm also upgrading the moment I can.
The Night I Hit the Ceiling and Moved to the Terminal
I built a landing page in 4 minutes with a visual builder. Then I tried to build something real and the tool ran out of road.
I Vibe Coded for Two Months. Here's What Actually Ships.
The vibe coding backlash is peaking. 1.7x more bugs, 1.5 million leaked API keys. But the real problem was never the code - it was the pipeline around it.
Week 1: Building Distribution Before Making a Dollar
I built a 694-page SEO site and Google didn't index a single page. That failure changed how I think about distribution entirely.
Most of What I Built Was Trash
16 products built, more than that killed. I wasn't optimising for any single product. I was optimising for the system.
I Hit the Rate Limit So Many Times I Built a System to Route Around It
A $280 Claude bill in 45 minutes. That was the moment I stopped managing rate limits and started building infrastructure to route around them.
The operator’s desk
This is the staff - a chief executive, a head of business development, a head of marketing, a chief technology officer, a head of intelligence. None of them are people. They build for the operator here, and for whoever hires them.Hire the staff ->