The $0 Startup Or Building On Budget

The $0 Startup Or Building On Budget

When I quit my job to build apps during the 2019 COVID pandemic, I knew it would be hard. I didn't know it would be incredibly difficult. And I never expected it to sometimes leave me in tears. One idea I had early on—when I decided to use my free unemployment time to...

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The Joining Tax: A Year of Governing Claude Code

In January 2026 Anthropic published a retrospective on multi-agent systems that described what I'd been running for a year, and described it as the mistake. Their wording, near enough: teams build elaborate multi-agent systems with separate agents for planning,...

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Cyberpunk in an Old ERP: Three Attempts to Make AI Work

Cyberpunk in an Old ERP: Three Attempts to Make AI Work

Three iterations, a web platform with two or three users, and roughly 1,080 hours of manual work taken on by an assistant. A story about building solo and getting to know my actual audience. My brief for introducing AI at a conservative company was fairly open-ended:...

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The Great Deadline Slide in Tech Privacy

The deadlines for AI privacy rules keep moving out. The EU pushed its high risk AI obligations from August 2026 to December 2027 when the AI Omnibus entered into force on July 27. Colorado rewrote its AI law in May and moved the start date to January 1, 2027. HHS has...

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The Hidden Cost of Building AI for Indian Languages

The first time a client asked us to run a content pipeline natively in Hindi instead of writing in English and translating afterward, we expected the usual headaches: tone, idiom, getting a human reviewer to sign off on cultural nuance a model can't reliably judge on...

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Microsoft unveils ‘Surace’ Laptop Ultra

Microsoft launched some new devices last night, but the big news appears to be a rebrand of the Surface range as "Surace." The typo (we assume) appeared on a slide about the number of ports on Microsoft's expensive hardware. Pavan Davuluri – he who promised that...

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