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Everything I have learned building with AI agents - what works, what does not, and what I killed.

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.

5 min readai-systems

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.

4 min readeconomics

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.

5 min readai-systems

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.

4 min readai-systems

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.

5 min readtool-opinions

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.

5 min readtool-opinions

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.

6 min readlessons

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.

5 min readlessons

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.

4 min readlessons

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.

5 min readai-systems
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