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Notes on shipping with AI.
Less hot takes, more receipts. What I'm learning while building.
Jun 23, 2026
6 min read
When the Best Instruction Is a List of Things Not to Do
NVIDIA now ships a security scanner for Markdown agent skills. After building my own, I think the lesson is the opposite of what everyone writes: a good skill is mostly the constraints, not the instructions.
AI AgentsContext Engineering
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Feb 20, 2026
4 min read
The DX Tax: When Developer Experience Becomes the Product
Internal tooling is infrastructure. Treat it like a product with users, feedback loops, and SLOs — or watch your best engineers quietly drown in friction.
Developer ExperienceProduct Engineering
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Nov 15, 2025
5 min read
Why I Stopped Building Microservices for Early-Stage Products
Microservices solve organizational scaling problems — not technical ones. Here's why a modular monolith shipped faster, cost less, and let us defer complexity until we actually needed it.
ArchitectureProduct Engineering
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