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Long-form thinking on engineering, agentic systems, RAG, MVPs, and the practice of shipping software.
What DevOps actually has to look like for a tiny AI startup. The minimum that buys you sleep without burning runway.
After five years of remote-first toolchain churn, here's the stack that actually shipped products in 2026.
AI tooling changed this answer. Whether you should learn to code in 2026 depends on what you'll do with the skill — not whether you can.
Technical founders avoid sales. Here's a playbook that doesn't ask you to become a salesperson — just a careful seller of your own work.
The senior engineering skill that nobody teaches: reading code well. A practical guide to navigating someone else's codebase.
Boring tech ships faster, hires easier, and breaks less. A 2026 case for not chasing the hype.
A first-product system design framework that resists the urge to be 'enterprise-ready' before you have customers.
The 'AI tutor' marketing is loud. The real AI-in-edtech wins are quieter. Here's what's actually moving outcomes.
Pure-autonomy agents are mostly demos. The agents that ship in production know when to call a human.