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When Cleverness Becomes Infrastructure
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Execution Is No Longer the Bottleneck—Turning Ideas into Systems Is
AI makes ideas easier to execute. It also moves the real bottleneck.
Rest Is Part of the AI Stack
The better you get at AI, the easier it is to overwork.
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Why I Share DHH's Enthusiasm for AI
Why I share DHH's enthusiasm for AI, and what differing levels of trust in my own team mean for how we try, evaluate, and use it.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Bengaluru Startup That Grew 20x in 9 Months by Building a Second Brain You Wear; PeptiBloom Async Orchestrator Queue; Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your companyEXCLUSIVE: The Bengaluru Startup That Grew 20x in 9 Months by Building a Second Brain You Wear; PeptiBloom Async Orchestrator Queue; Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
AI Native Systems
September 6, 2026I Put GPT-6 Astra to Work
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August 16, 2026What I Learned From DeepSeek's Harness
A few days inside DeepSeek's open agent harness, pinned to one commit: four verified designs — the log the model cannot escape, the loop that is one config row, CI-enforced cache discipline, and the process OS behind 12,293 agent-written commits — and what builders should actually own.
AI Native Systems
August 2, 2026Should You Read AI-Generated Code? Ask What It Is Allowed to Change
A practical framework for deciding how deeply humans should review AI-generated code, based on the authority and consequences of the change.
