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Essays and threads. Mostly about building with AI.

so are you gonna trust one model or you gonna verify the result

the AI isn't dumb. it's lobotomized. the fix isn't better prompts — it's rebuilding the operating environment.

stole like an artist. 119k-star repo analyzed, patterns lifted, bootleg version upgraded.

you don't build self-governance infrastructure because you're disciplined. you build it because you're not.

the bottleneck used to be building and grinding. now its inverted.

heard about remotion. never opened the docs. wrote one paragraph, got a launch video back in 60 seconds.

wrong metric is lines of code. the one that compounds is judgement calls.

best skills don't come from browsing packs. they come from the step that keeps repeating because skipping it broke something.

there's a version of ai productivity that looks like building and functions like avoidance.

walk long enough and things separate on their own. what matters. what doesn't.

co-founded knowhere. $30m volume. we were tracking to #1. window closed. market timing beats execution every time.

designer codes. developer codes. biz guy codes. the tool just works for all three now.

ai makes you faster at building the wrong thing too. governance isn't overhead — it's what keeps speed from becoming expensive.

the middleware was the problem the entire time.

not chasing speed — trying to see where it actually changes outcomes. a 10-post thread.