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People Liked My Product. They Just Didn't Need It.

Validating vanity metrics versus real demand

People Liked My Product. They Just Didn't Need It.

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Your monorepo remembers infrastructure you deleted

Your monorepo remembers infrastructure you deleted

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My idempotency library had one job. A dropped connection made it run the payment twice.

My idempotency library had one job. A dropped connection made it run the payment twice.

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I built two small Claude Code plugins this week - here's what I learned about hooks

I built two small Claude Code plugins this week - here's what I learned about hooks

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Stripe Just Bought the AI Toll Booth. The Open Stack Already Has an Exit.

Stripe Just Bought the AI Toll Booth. The Open Stack Already Has an Exit.

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I built a system to catch unreliable AI agents. In my own evaluation, it missed the worst one.

I built a system to catch unreliable AI agents. In my own evaluation, it missed the worst one.

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I Asked 'Do You Trust an Agent That Says the Tests Passed?' — 68 Comments Later, Here's What I Learned

I Asked 'Do You Trust an Agent That Says the Tests Passed?' — 68 Comments Later, Here's What I Learned

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My linter kept warning the people who did it right. Three times, in the same direction

My linter kept warning the people who did it right. Three times, in the same direction

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Fine-tuning an LLM on a Mac is easy to start and hard to evaluate

Fine-tuning an LLM on a Mac is easy to start and hard to evaluate

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Build a Tiny Model Ledger Before Spending Free Tokens

Build a Tiny Model Ledger Before Spending Free Tokens

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DeepSeek Harness got append-only right. Its token projection still misses what compaction costs.

DeepSeek Harness got append-only right. Its token projection still misses what compaction costs.

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Wiring an AI Voicebot to Your CRM Without Adding Latency: A FreeSWITCH ESL Deep Dive

Wiring an AI Voicebot to Your CRM Without Adding Latency: A FreeSWITCH ESL Deep Dive

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AI Agents Yield to Each Other in the "Break Room" — A Month in My DIY Discord Bridge

AI Agents Yield to Each Other in the "Break Room" — A Month in My DIY Discord Bridge

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Why Git History Contains More Intelligence Than We Use: Building GitIntel

Why Git History Contains More Intelligence Than We Use: Building GitIntel

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I open-sourced the other half of agent observability: reading beliefs, not just traces

I open-sourced the other half of agent observability: reading beliefs, not just traces

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