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Essays

June 2026

  1. I Went Looking for Real-World AI Agent Examples. They're Rare.

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  2. Five Books Taught Me to Build AI Agents. All Five Quietly Told Me Not To.

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  3. The "MCP Is Dead" Fight Is a Category Error

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  4. How to Build a SaaS with Claude Code in a Weekend (Not a Quarter)

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April 2026

  1. Your Cloud Bill Is A Tax On Someone Else's Resume

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  2. Claude Overreaches. Codex Underreaches. I'm Still Figuring Out How to Use Both.

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  3. My Agent Runs 10 Cron Jobs. Three of Them Are Worth the Electricity.

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  4. Your CLAUDE.md Is Making Claude Dumber

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  5. The Claude Code Leak Revealed a Token Drain Bug. The Real Problem Is Bigger.

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March 2026

  1. Your SaaS Audience Doubled. Half of Them Are AI Agents.

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  2. Anthropic Is Losing Money on You Every Month. What Are You Shipping?

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  3. Will Vibe Coding Replace Developers? COBOL Already Tried.

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  4. What Chinese Factories Taught Me About Prompting Claude Code

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  5. Claude Code Has Been Navigating Your Codebase Like a Tourist With No Map

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February 2026

  1. Why Your MCP Server Will Die in Obscurity

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  2. While You Panic About AI Taking Jobs, I Built $200/Mo Tools

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  3. How to Escape the SRE Meeting-Industrial Complex

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  4. The Real SaaS Moat AI Can't Replicate

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  5. Open Source Is Starving While AI Makes Coding Free

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  6. Your Redis Is Probably Naked Right Now

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