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Practical writing on building things that ship.

What we've learned from 70+ projects: AI systems, automation, MVPs, and the decisions that separated the ones that worked from the ones that didn't.

Engineering6 min read

Vibe-coded demos break in production. Here's why.

LLMs can generate working code fast. The problem is 'working' and 'production-ready' are not the same thing. After reviewing dozens of AI-assisted codebases, the failure modes are consistent — and avoidable.

AI codingProductionCode review
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Product5 min read

What a real 6-week MVP looks like — and what it doesn't.

Six weeks is tight. The teams that ship in it aren't faster than average — they're more disciplined about scope. We've run enough of these sprints to know exactly where time gets lost and how to stop it.

MVPProduct deliveryScope
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AI Systems8 min read

Five things we've learned deploying AI systems into real operations.

Most AI system failures aren't model failures. They're integration failures, monitoring failures, or expectation failures. Lessons from shipping 40+ automations and copilots across ops and support teams.

AI deploymentOperationsMonitoring
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Engineering7 min read

Building a unified inbox is harder than it looks.

Instagram, Facebook, email, SMS — four channels, four rate limits, four auth flows, four message schemas, and four different definitions of 'read'. What we learned building a channel aggregation platform that actually works.

IntegrationsMessagingArchitecture
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