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Notes from the workshop.

Long-form thinking on engineering, agentic systems, RAG, MVPs, and the practice of shipping software.

devops

The DevOps Minimum for a 5-Person AI Startup

What DevOps actually has to look like for a tiny AI startup. The minimum that buys you sleep without burning runway.

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engineering

The Remote-First Engineering Team in 2026: Tools That Survived the Hype

After five years of remote-first toolchain churn, here's the stack that actually shipped products in 2026.

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founders

Should a Non-Technical Founder Learn to Code in 2026? An Honest Take

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.

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founders

The First-10-Customers Playbook for Technical Founders

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.

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engineering

Reading Other People's Code: The Underrated Engineering Superpower

The senior engineering skill that nobody teaches: reading code well. A practical guide to navigating someone else's codebase.

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engineering

The Case for Boring Tech in 2026

Boring tech ships faster, hires easier, and breaks less. A 2026 case for not chasing the hype.

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engineering

System Design Without Overengineering: A First-Product Framework

A first-product system design framework that resists the urge to be 'enterprise-ready' before you have customers.

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ai

AI in Edtech: Personalized Learning vs the AI Tutor Hype

The 'AI tutor' marketing is loud. The real AI-in-edtech wins are quieter. Here's what's actually moving outcomes.

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agentic

Building AI Agents With Human-in-the-Loop Fallbacks

Pure-autonomy agents are mostly demos. The agents that ship in production know when to call a human.

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