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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
