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Built an app with Claude Code or Codex that breaks once you use it? I'll walk you through setting up Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) and…
Five documented investigations into real software, and how to use what they reveal to build something of your own.
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Executive Briefing: You Bought Better Tools and Your Finished Work Still Waits
AI is making some people dramatically more productive. Getting that speed through the rest of the organization is a separate problem, and it isn’t…
Sep 27
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You cannot tell which parts of your software should stop calling an LLM. My Jev guide has a prompt that scans your projects and names them.
Software is about to get intelligent in very different places.
Sep 21
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Can agents buy from your product? Three questions that tell you. Plus: Nate's Library MCP.
What I took away from my conversation with Emily Sands, Stripe’s Head of Data & AI.
Sep 17
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Omarchy lets an AI agent rewrite the whole desktop. Here are 8 changes you can make on your Mac instead.
AI is making interfaces cheaper to imagine and build. A growing population of agents will need computers of its own. Enter Omarchy.
Sep 11
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You pay for two frontier models and route almost everything to one. Both Mac apps are yours for an email, and the guide walks the verbatim…
And yes, you can download both Shelf and Ledge. Tell me which one you like better and why in the comments!
Sep 10
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You keep reopening the same decision at midnight because checking it costs a weekend you don't have. GPT-6 Astra is about to give you your…
Better computer use and longer-running agents make more possibilities worth exploring. What to reconsider, and how to give Astra the work.
Sep 7
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Your AI provider can change the deal on you. Here's the 5-prompt audit I run to stay ready.
My $600-plus AI setup, what I keep outside every provider, and the test each expensive plan has to pass.
Sep 2
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Grab my six-line handoff and cost scorecard, then find out whether a cheaper model actually saved you money.
Keep the coding harness you already built while GLM-5.3 moves expensive API work to a much cheaper model in minutes.
Aug 21
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Personal software is here, and you can build yours this week. Grab the setup guide: two routes, four files, every account.
Build it! The complete guide for non-developers: pick the right shape, make the few decisions that matter, and turn one stubborn wish into working…
Aug 19
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You're one app install away from a team that takes on your biggest jobs.
I’m having more fun with Grok Bot than anything I’ve touched this year. It’s the first AI product I’d hand to someone who has never used one, and here…
Aug 14
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OpenAI's agent manual rotted into a graveyard of stale rules. Grab my Working Context Starter Kit, the four-file guide that keeps yours…
AI can make you 10x more ambitious. The catch is that your agents keep working from the version of the plan you already abandoned.
Aug 12
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