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Writing from the workbench
Nikolas Barwicki
AI Product Engineer
I write about building products with AI, what changes when agents join the engineering team, and the lessons that only show up after shipping.
Latest writing (32)
2026
Fast voice actions with GPT-Live and Decisions
Live talks. Decisions picks. Your code acts.
I had 290 agent skills. I use six.
Global skills are habits. Everything else is project context.
How I let coding agents run for 10 hours: the setup
The human work moves to before and after the run.
Hand on the Wheel #3The right model, not the best model
Test the model on your work before paying more.
Waiting for cheap AI to end
Today's losses don't settle tomorrow's AI prices.
Working in public
Public GitHub activity
Last 12 months · 236 active days
Oct 2025 — Oct 2026
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