HOW I ACTUALLY DID IT
Build logs, product takes, and occasional improv tangents. The messy middle left in.
The Last 10%
The work is fast. The gap is slow. Why the last 10% of every project takes weeks — and the one change that fixes it.
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How to Build Your Own Health Agent
Three nutrition and health agents, one for each family member — what an agent actually is, and how to run one in the cloud or fully local.
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My Build, Buy, or Skip Rules for MCPs
Build, buy, or skip — the four questions I ask before wiring up another MCP bridge
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Skip the subscription and build a TTS pipeline
I have subscriptions to various online journals. I mean what isn’t a subscription these days. I often save articles I want to keep or use for writing…
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I ran my first LoRA experiment and made the AI stupid
I fine-tuned a 1.5B model to replace gemma 27b on one narrow task. Training loss looked great. Eval told a different story.
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A beginner's guide to building a weekly digest
I built my kid a weekly personalized philosophy digest because he asked. Here's the template you can fork to build your own.
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I Don't Need Meal Planning, I Just Need Help
Why building a meal planner was the wrong fix — and what I built instead.
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Two Claudes, one Slack channel
How I stopped two Claudes from drifting out of sync using a single Slack channel.
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Bot Fraud, Manual Detection, and Why the System Worked (This Time)
A fraud wave, a paranoid Sunday, and why manual detection isn't a system
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I counted my MCP tools and, well, yikes
150 MCP tools were silently eating half my context window — an audit, a cull, and two custom servers later
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My AI handles ops so I don't have to
Why I built a nightly ops agent instead of a self-reflection loop
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Playing games
I built a pixel art game to celebrate my team. Here's why.
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Your AI skills are rotting, let's fix that
You collect skills but are you using them? Let's find out.
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Stop Letting Your AI Coding Sessions Die
A simple habit to stop losing context between AI coding sessions
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Why Yes, I A/B Tested AI Agent Frameworks
What running two AI agent frameworks taught me about architecture
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Skills > Dashboards
When the obvious path is blocked, product thinking finds the side door.
Read →Warp Is Good. I Turned Off All the AI Features. Still Good.
A product person's take on Warp terminal — no AI required
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I asked an AI to describe how our company actually works
What a year of meeting transcripts revealed about how decisions really get made
Read →Your meeting transcripts don't need to leave your laptop
Transcription meets privacy
Read →Take your product and... sunset it
What it actually costs to kill a product your team built
Read →Automating my writing pipeline
I built a content pipeline that mines 41 weekly meeting transcripts for stories worth telling
Read →DON'T MISS THE NEXT ONE
New posts land in AI Out Loud — plain-English AI every other Sunday.
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