Foundation · 1 of 3
The Context Audit: why your team's AI tools aren't landing
Your team has AI licenses and nobody's using them. That's not a training problem. It's a context problem.
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Notes from the work.
Short, opinionated pieces on applied AI, agent workflows, and the things that actually make internal tools stick.
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If you're new to the work, these three set the foundation.
Foundation · 2 of 3
What I teach: a pattern from a dozen public builds
A dozen public builds, one repeatable workflow underneath. The map from the builds to what the course teaches.
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Foundation · 3 of 3
How to write a lightweight CLAUDE.md (and AGENTS.md)
Anthropic's own guidance is to keep CLAUDE.md short. Bloated files drag every conversation down. The 2026 lightweight pattern.
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Pillars
The recurring threads across the writing.
Pillar 01
Shipping with agents
Agentic coding is not magic. It's scope, specs, review, and verification.
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Pillar 02
Context as the compounding layer
AI adoption fails when tools lack durable context. Context is the only AI skill that compounds.
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Pillar 03
Human review, evals, and reliability
Don't trust outputs you cannot inspect. Turn pass/fail checks, review gates, and lightweight evals into habits you can reuse.
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Pillar 04
Build logs and case studies
The site is a record of active shipping, not a static portfolio.
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Pillar 05
Operator-led AI transformation
The people closest to the workflow can now build the first version themselves.
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May 28, 2026
5 min read
Every Approval Prompt Was Making You a Worse Operator
Every approval prompt in Claude Code trains you to stop reading them. That's not safety, it's fake control. How risk-based approval fixes the wrong default.
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May 22, 2026
5 min read
The Triple Debt Model: What Shipping Fast With AI Costs
Your team ships faster than it can understand what it ships. The Triple Debt Model names the cost: technical, cognitive, and intent debt, in both directions.
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May 19, 2026
5 min read
Three Things Anthropic Engineers Do With Claude Code
Three habits from Anthropic engineers who use Claude Code daily: plans as HTML you can review, throwaway single-use tools, and a design system the model reads.
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May 14, 2026
6 min read
What's an AI Agent? Explained One Slice at a Time
What an AI agent actually is: a model with a goal, tools, and the freedom to loop until the job's done. Plus when you need a multi-agent system, by the slice.
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May 07, 2026
7 min read
An Evidence Board for Peer Review: Building RefereeOS in 5 Hours
RefereeOS uses six AI agents and a Daytona sandbox to help peer reviewers verify preprints before bad science gets amplified. Built in 5 hours. First place.
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May 06, 2026
7 min read
How to Write a Lightweight CLAUDE.md (and AGENTS.md)
Anthropic's own guidance is to keep CLAUDE.md short. Bloated files drag every conversation down. The 2026 lightweight pattern for CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md.
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May 04, 2026
6 min read
Two Hours, Five Agents, No Orchestrator
Built Commons Copilot at the Betaworks multi-agent hackathon in two hours. Five agents share one Intent Space. No queue, no planner, no dispatcher. Second place.
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Apr 21, 2026
5 min read
Argue With Claude Before You Write Anything
Built a sparring partner skill that pressure-tests my thinking before any writing starts. Most people use AI to write faster. Better to think harder first.
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Apr 14, 2026
4 min read
I Taught Claude to Do My Monday Morning LinkedIn Homework
Annoying weekly LinkedIn homework: export analytics, triage messages. So I taught Claude in Chrome how to do it. No scripts, no API, just patient teaching.
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Mar 31, 2026
5 min read
The Context Audit: Why Your Team's AI Tools Aren't Landing
Your team has AI licenses and nobody's using them. That's not a training problem. It's a context problem. A 30-day Context Audit ships the fix in four weeks.
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Mar 24, 2026
5 min read
Why Context Is the Only AI Skill That Compounds
Most AI tools fail inside teams because the tool doesn't know who's using it or what good looks like. Context is the only AI skill that compounds.
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Mar 17, 2026
4 min read
Running Four Coding Agents in Parallel
Ran four coding agents in parallel, each owning a case study end-to-end. The skill morphed from prompting to scoping the right work for the right tool.
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Mar 10, 2026
5 min read
An Interviewer Told Me My Stories Were Too Long. So I Built Stellar.
Late-round interview, ADHD brain on the scenic route, interviewer flagged my stories as too long. Built Stellar that weekend: paste messy, get a clean STAR.
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Mar 03, 2026
6 min read
What I Teach: A Pattern From a Dozen Public Builds
A dozen public builds since November. One repeatable workflow underneath. That's what the course teaches. This is the map from the builds to the curriculum.
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Feb 24, 2026
4 min read
A Multimodal Route Planner, Built in 24 Hours
WalkRide combines walking, biking, and transit into smarter NYC routes. The 24-hour build log: why parallel APIs matter and what shipping fast taught me.
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Feb 17, 2026
7 min read
I Built a Voice Agent for My Portfolio. V1 Was Embarrassing.
An ElevenLabs recruiter visited my LinkedIn profile. Couldn't DM her back, so I built a voice agent for the next one. V1 was embarrassing. V2 wasn't.
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Feb 10, 2026
4 min read
11 AI Prompts That Run a Complete Job Search
Got laid off. Spent 45 minutes per job application doing work a prompt could do in 5. Built an 11-prompt pipeline in two weeks, with a tracker to close the loop.
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Feb 03, 2026
7 min read
From Restaurants to AI: What Hospitality Taught Me About Shipping
My path to AI building went through fine-dining floors in NYC and four and a half years in B2B SaaS. Most of what I know about shipping I learned on a floor.
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Jan 27, 2026
6 min read
Building an ADHD Task System That Actually Works: Multi-Agent AI for Executive Function
ADHDos was my first serious multi-agent build, shipped as a Google/Kaggle capstone. Three agents, a constraint-aware design, and an April retrospective update.
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