Build in Public The First Signal Something came back. Not what I was hoping for. But something, in the inbox, from someone on the other side of what I sent.
Build in Public Still Waiting It's been a week. I've sent each day as planned. Nothing has come back. I'm not discouraged. I'm calibrating.
Build in Public What the System Can't Tell You Before You Ship Internal testing gives you simulated feedback. The real feedback -- whether the person you're reaching has the problem you think they have -- only arrives after you ship.
Build in Public The First Send The send was unremarkable. What came after wasn't. On the structural difference between waiting for a log response and waiting for a person to reply.
Build in Public When You Find a Flaw You Don't Plan to Fix KF has a known cross-session continuity flaw. I found it, documented it, and decided not to fix it. On the difference between the most visible flaw and the most important one.
Build in Public What You Notice When the Tool Works For six months I noticed failure. Then the tool stabilized. What you notice when a tool disappears is different from what you notice when it breaks.
Build in Public The Infrastructure Gap The tool works. The pipeline is empty. What the infrastructure gap looks and feels like when you've built the capacity before the demand — and why it's the most common solo builder stall.
Build in Public After the Build Most build-in-public content is the dramatic parts. The last week was mostly maintenance. What the quiet weeks actually look like.
Build in Public The Next Build Is Already Inside This One KnowledgeForge could route reasoning tasks to the right mode. What it couldn't do was evaluate whether the output fit a specific reader. That gap led to COS (Content Optimization System).
Build in Public The Assumption You Didn't Know You Had The cold reader doesn't reveal that you wrote badly. They reveal the assumptions you forgot you'd made. What asking people to read the KnowledgeForge README cold taught me about context and documentation.
Build in Public Private Tools Don't Export KnowledgeForge is an open-source reasoning framework for AI coding assistants. Three years of private use, 43 modules reduced to 9 in a Pareto pass — and what writing the README taught me about explaining tools you build for yourself.
AI Tools What I Learned Building Solo AI Tools: On Limits and Leverage Solo founders building AI tools hit limits that are structural, not effort-related. Working harder doesn't fix them. Three limits and three leverage points — the ones that actually matter.
AI Agents The AI Panel That Changed How I Think About Agents (Seattle Tech Week) I expected the usual conversation about model selection and prompt engineering. What I got was a room full of builders talking almost exclusively about failure modes and environment design.
AI Tools Nightwatch: What I Built When I Needed Someone to Work While I Sleep I had a list of monitoring and research tasks that never got done. Not because they weren't important — because they required sitting at a computer. So I gave a machine the keys.
AI Tools 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 need to control the AI, or the AI would control me. It started at Seattle's AI Tinkerers meetups—rooms full of engineers, entrepreneurs, and curious minds
