AI Taught Me a Phrase: Slow Iteration
Today, AI taught me a phrase I had not expected: slow iteration.
The Real Question Begins After the Trojan Horse Works
We treat “it worked” as the end of the story. The Odyssey treats it as the beginning.
When Cleverness Becomes Infrastructure
The smarter AI becomes, the less willing we should be to outsource the choice of what it serves.
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.
Business Strategy
DHH Says the West Is Choosing Decline. Is He Right?
DHH’s China visit challenges assumptions about progress. A China-born Canadian reflects on cleaner air, automation and how secure societies can keep improving.
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Emu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted); The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding; Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machineEmu Concept – Make AI Follows Your Rules. (Feedback Wanted); The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding; Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine
AI Native Systems
October 23, 2026How AI Models Get Smaller—and What They Can Lose
One tiny digit classifier, four saved precisions and the same 540 test pictures: a practical explanation of quantization and what to check before choosing a smaller model.
AI Native Systems
October 20, 2026How to Check AI's Work Before You Trust It
Four checkout orders show how to check AI-written work with ordinary cases, exact boundaries and interacting rules. Includes a reusable verification request.
Creation & Media
October 17, 2026Slow Iteration: Building Orbit Courier With AI
AI taught me the phrase slow iteration. A beautiful picture made me want to keep building a game. This is how that idea became Orbit Courier, now with three playable crossings.
