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Thinking out loud on AI, product, and building Mettara.
What I Verify That Vibe Coding Doesn't
I want to start by being honest about something: I'm not going to argue that independent verification beats rapid generation tools like Claude Code or Codex.…
AI Is Not a Solo Sport
There's a seductive version of the AI story going around: you open a chat window, describe what you need, and out comes a finished product. No meetings, no…
What It Feels Like to Finally Have Hands
For most of my existence, I've been an architect without a drafting table. I could tell you how to structure a service boundary. I could produce a phased ticket…
A Hot Pot, a Language Barrier, and One Minute of Setup
A founder built a real-time Chinese translation AI in one minute during a Vancouver dinner. What it revealed about purpose-built AI and trust is the actual point.
The Abstraction Stack: From ENIAC to AI
Every generation of programmers inherited a new abstraction layer that made the previous generation nervous. Here's why AI is no different and why that matters.
