Essays
Five Books Taught Me to Build AI Agents. All Five Quietly Told Me Not To.
Four Manning books and Reddit’s top threads agree: an AI agent is just an LLM, tools, and a loop. The hard part — and the only skill worth building — is the rest.
The "MCP Is Dead" Fight Is a Category Error
MCP vs Skills vs CLI, fact-checked. The context and cross-vendor cases for MCP both died in 2025 — here’s the one place MCP still wins, and when to skip it.
How to Build a SaaS with Claude Code in a Weekend (Not a Quarter)
How I build SaaS solo with Claude Code: what to build, the Max plan, specs, context engineering with beads, and deploying with Kamal. A weekend, not a quarter.
Your Cloud Bill Is A Tax On Someone Else's Resume
Kubernetes adoption is often a tax on someone else’s resume. How solo founders end up with $600 AWS bills — and the one-VPS stack that replaces it.
Claude Overreaches. Codex Underreaches. I'm Still Figuring Out How to Use Both.
After a Claude outage left me shipping nothing, I added Codex. Here’s why running both AI coding agents beats picking one — and what I’m still figuring out.
My Agent Runs 10 Cron Jobs. Three of Them Are Worth the Electricity.
My always-on AI agent has ten cron jobs. Six of them went silent weeks ago and I hadn’t noticed. Here’s what the logs actually said.
Your CLAUDE.md Is Making Claude Dumber
ETH Zurich research shows bloated CLAUDE.md files reduce AI coding performance and increase costs. Here’s what to keep, what to kill, and why 60 lines beats 800.
The Claude Code Leak Revealed a Token Drain Bug. The Real Problem Is Bigger.
The leaked Claude Code source revealed a caching bug silently burning tokens on every session resume. Here’s what it means for AI pricing and your workflow.
Your SaaS Audience Doubled. Half of Them Are AI Agents.
Build MCP-First SaaS: The Dashboard Is Just a View
Anthropic Is Losing Money on You Every Month. What Are You Shipping?
Every developer on Claude Max is being subsidized by billions in VC money. Here’s why the window is open, how long it stays that way, and what to build before it closes.
Will Vibe Coding Replace Developers? COBOL Already Tried.
Last month I spent about forty minutes arguing with Claude Code about a rate limiter. Not debugging a rate limiter. Not implementing one. Arguing. I had typed “add a usage limit to the free tier” and gotten back something that technically worked — it counted things and stopped you when you hit the limit — but was also completely wrong in about six different ways that I hadn’t specified because I hadn’t thought to specify them.
What Chinese Factories Taught Me About Prompting Claude Code
Anything you don’t specify will be done at minimum cost
Claude Code Has Been Navigating Your Codebase Like a Tourist With No Map
Your IDE solved this in 2016. Here’s how to give the same fix to your agent.
Why Your MCP Server Will Die in Obscurity
The reason Claude ignores your MCP server has nothing to do with your code.
While You Panic About AI Taking Jobs, I Built $200/Mo Tools
I eliminated $200/month in AI subscriptions by building Claude Code skills. Same AI, zero recurring cost. Here’s what I built and how you can too.
How to Escape the SRE Meeting-Industrial Complex
How to reclaim your brain from the meeting-industrial complex
The Real SaaS Moat AI Can't Replicate
AI can clone your features in an afternoon. What it can’t clone is the thing most founders haven’t bothered to build. Here’s where the actual defensibility lives in 2026.
Open Source Is Starving While AI Makes Coding Free
The Open Source Crisis Nobody’s Talking About
Your Redis Is Probably Naked Right Now
A solo dev security horror story with a very short checklist
What Happens When You Let 6 AI Agents Write Code at the Same Time
A field report from the bleeding edge of AI-assisted development