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June 2026

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

April 2026

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

  3. Your CLAUDE.md Is Making Claude Dumber

    Essay,

March 2026

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

  3. What Chinese Factories Taught Me About Prompting Claude Code

    Essay,

February 2026

  1. Why Your MCP Server Will Die in Obscurity

    Essay,

January 2026

  1. What Happens When You Let 6 AI Agents Write Code at the Same Time

    Essay,

  2. I Built 2 SaaS Products Vibe Coding. Here's the System That Made It Work.

    Essay,

  3. Your Code Quality Doesn't Matter Anymore (And It Never Did)

    Essay,

  4. 90% of Programming Skills Just Got Commoditized. The Other 10% Is Worth 1000X More.

    Essay,

  5. Clean Code Is Dead. Long Live Clean Specs.

    Essay,

  6. The Invisible Tax You Pay When You Vibe Code

    Essay,

  7. Your MCP Servers Are Eating Your Context

    Essay,

November 2025

  1. I Watched AI Generate a Perfect Todo App in 3 Minutes. Then I Spent 3 Days Fixing It.

    Essay,

October 2025

  1. 10 Ways to Waste Time and Money with AI Agents: A Field Guide to Self-Sabotage

    Essay,

Other topics

  • Craft

    The job under the job: meetings, bad code, taste, and throwing things away.

  • Claude Code

    Daily-driver notes: CLAUDE.md, hooks, skills, MCP and the bombs it nearly shipped.

  • SaaS

    Solo SaaS without the ceremony: pricing, stacks, monitoring, small bets.

  • Kubernetes

    Years of clusters, and why I now mostly bet against them for indie work.