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Essays and threads. Mostly about building with AI.
reversion to the mean
ai design has a smell. it's the average of everything it saw. the deliberate parts are what's missing.
the bot has to be summoned
rate limits, webhooks, and dual auth paths. notes from wiring a bot into x.
i told it to stop writing for me
wrote a skill to stop the ghostwriting. now it will not let me forget.
show the wow flow first
people are trained to swipe away at the first hint of discomfort.
what is the minimal fix
agents add guardrails they cannot see already exist. reduction is still a skill.
attention is the bottleneck
vibecoding flooded the market with software. it did not flood the market with users.
ui patterns are infrastructure
every flow i improved recently started with show me five apps that solved this already.
i miss the old crypto
the financial lego crypto. the new primitive every week crypto.
nowhere to bet your friend
wanted to bet a friend he would show up to the gym. turns out there is nowhere to do that.
reviewers have to earn it
three models grade my drafts. axelrod says they have to earn the right to be trusted.
what makes this so hard
the question that has killed more of my startup ideas than competitors ever did.
no scoreboard
everyone remembers their one correct prediction. nobody remembers the twenty they got wrong.
put money on it
every friend group has that one guy who is 100% confident about everything.
ai fight club
so are you gonna trust one model or you gonna verify the result
how i delobotomized chatgpt
the AI isn't dumb. it's lobotomized. the fix isn't better prompts — it's rebuilding the operating environment.
kanly v2
stole like an artist. 119k-star repo analyzed, patterns lifted, bootleg version upgraded.
compensation architecture
you don't build self-governance infrastructure because you're disciplined. you build it because you're not.
brain begging for sugar
the bottleneck used to be building and grinding. now its inverted.
one prompt, one video
heard about remotion. never opened the docs. wrote one paragraph, got a launch video back in 60 seconds.
judgement per hour
wrong metric is lines of code. the one that compounds is judgement calls.
build your own arsenal
best skills don't come from browsing packs. they come from the step that keeps repeating because skipping it broke something.
you're not thinking with ai. you're hiding behind it.
there's a version of ai productivity that looks like building and functions like avoidance.
baptism by ice
walk long enough and things separate on their own. what matters. what doesn't.
market timing
co-founded knowhere. $30m volume. we were tracking to #1. window closed. market timing beats execution every time.
new paradigm
designer codes. developer codes. biz guy codes. the tool just works for all three now.
kanly governance
ai makes you faster at building the wrong thing too. governance isn't overhead — it's what keeps speed from becoming expensive.
openclaw → claude code
the middleware was the problem the entire time.
ai in coding
not chasing speed — trying to see where it actually changes outcomes. a 10-post thread.