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Field notes from building with AI.

Essays about product engineering, agents, work, and the awkward gap between a promising idea and a useful thing.

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2026

One year later, I write for myself first

The thinking matters more than the finished article.

Stop treating shipped specs as documentation

Specs guide the build, then become history.

I am building five iOS apps before I market them

I am recording a five-app bet from day zero.

Five Bets #1

My first public skill - and the part it can't hand you

The one command installs the prompt. Not the work.

Hand on the Wheel #2

I don't read most of the code my agents write

I read the critical code, skim the rest, and never hand off the architecture.

Hand on the Wheel #1

I gave my blog a Markdown twin for agents

Same URL, 80% fewer tokens. No server.

I was regenerating Claude's answers just to copy them

There was a slash command for that.

LLMs are shortsighted and that's your fault

They optimize for now. You're supposed to know what comes next.

I built a statusline because /usage is a distraction

Stop interrupting yourself to check how much you have left.

The leaked code isn't the story. The response is.

Blame the process, not the person.

I wiped my Mac and forgot to install Cursor

From must-have to afterthought in under a year.

The code your AI writes is untrusted. You run it anyway.

AI-generated code is untrusted by definition. So why are we running it with full access to our credentials, filesystems, and production databases?

Your AI setup is premature optimization

You already know the rule. You're just not following it.

Not knowing how to code is not a superpower

It's a ceiling.

Code review is becoming a fiction

LGTM is not a review strategy.

Most of your AGENTS.md is wasted tokens

4% better. Or worse. Depends what you write.

Chasing models won't make you better at using them

Skill the model, not the benchmark

Stop buying courses. Start asking questions

Why mass-purchasing courses failed me and how conversations with AI taught me more about backend development than any Udemy sale ever could.

2025: The year I stopped yapping and started shipping

2025