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Why I Stopped Using One AI Agent for Everything
Build in Public Jul 15, 2026 · 1 min read

Why I Stopped Using One AI Agent for Everything

I fell in love with Windsurf for about three months. The agentic coding experience was different. More fluid than Cursor. It felt like the assistant was in the project with you, not just answering

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Three Years at AI Tinkerers. Three Presentations. One Pattern.
Build in Public Jul 13, 2026

Three Years at AI Tinkerers. Three Presentations. One Pattern.

I've been showing up to AI Tinkerers for three years. I started going before I had anything worth demoing. I

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Build in Public Jul 8, 2026

How a ChatGPT Prompt Log Became a 43-Module AI Reasoning Framework

In 2023, I had a ChatGPT Project with a growing stack of files in the knowledgebase. Not a framework. Just files. Instructions

Open pocket watch revealing intricate mechanical movement — representing the engine built over six years of AI development
AI Coding Jul 6, 2026

Solo AI Builder: 6 Years, 4 Frameworks, No Partners

From Google Ads scripts to 450 commits a month — and what ten years of going solo actually taught me about building alone in the AI era.

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KnowledgeForge Jun 21, 2026

Benchmarking KnowledgeForge on GAIA: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I'm building KnowledgeForge (KF) — a reasoning framework that sits on top of a base model and routes work to specialized

Surreal scene: glowing AGI brain emits art, music, code; cracked gavel on broken IP law book. Text: Authorship Void, Inventorship Fiction, Incentive Collapse, Training Data Ratchet.
LLM May 1, 2026

Who Owns What AGI Creates? Nobody. That's the Problem.

Creatorship of AGI David Pedersen / NW AGI Group April 2026 Abstract Roman Yampolskiy's 2022 paper "Unownability of AGI"

Stop tinkering & start building. Discover 10 hard-won lessons from 3 years of surviving the AIPocalypse. Learn to build systems that guide AI, outmaneuver the loops, and level up your tools.
AI Tools Mar 27, 2026

From AI Tinkerer to Tool Builder: Three Years of Surviving the AIPocalypse

Three years ago, I made a decision that would reshape everything: if I was going to survive the coming AIPocalypse, I would

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Founder Perspective Mar 8, 2026

The Woman Who Taught Me to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Sixteen years ago, I was the new guy at Whitepages, trying to figure out search marketing in a city where I barely

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Founder Perspective Mar 1, 2026

I Built a Psychology-Based Copy Analyzer. Here’s What 200+ Real B2B Messages Taught Me.

For the past year, I've been building SEMalytics, a content monitor that scores B2B communications against Big Five personality psychology.

Score your B2B copy before you publish.

SEMalytics measures audience fit, clarity, framing, and AEO readiness across 8 dimensions grounded in 860+ papers.