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Notes from real work and from working with AI agents, across product, SaaS, and growth, all the way to building my own products and a quant investing system from zero.

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Data as of build 2026-11-05
Source: the /blog hub page

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  • Product & PM · 10 postsProduct, PM and GTM work when frameworks become skillsRead →
  • Accounting · 14 postsExtract invoices, reconcile, vouch, fileRead →
  • AI Agents · 27 postsDesign and run a fleet of AI agentsRead →
  • Claude Skills · 18 postsBuild production-grade Claude skillsRead →
  • Reliability · 15 postsMake AI output and code trustworthyRead →
  • Knowledge & Memory · 9 postsKnowledge and memory an AI can recallRead →
  • Models & Cost · 22 postsPick, run and pay for AI modelsRead →
  • AI Visibility · 5 postsMake your site visible and citable to AIRead →
  • Infra & Tools · 11 postsHosting, servers and the tools on your machineRead →
  • SME Business · 6 postsBusiness models, pricing and AI in a small businessRead →
AI Agents

Multiple AIs, one mailbox, no copy-paste

~12 min read · 2 Nov 2026
Reliability

We tested NVIDIA Kumo: it shrinks the pile, but can't decide alone

~10 min read · 1 Nov 2026
AI Agents

What always-on agents are, who has one, how to link yours

~14 min read · Oct 29, 2026
Accounting

Connecting AI to several companies: check which one it reads first

~10 min read · Oct 28, 2026
Claude Skills

Cursor pstack review: 51 skills with a built-in manager, and the 5 pieces we took

~18 min read · Oct 13, 2026
Accounting

Review: Letting AI issue receipts in FlowAccount after customers pay online

~15 min read · 10 Oct 2026
AI Agents

Grok Bot has its own computer, which goes to sleep when the chat ends

~17 min read · Oct 10, 2026
AI Agents

Build a Page Chat Bot That Doesn't Go Quiet on You

~14 min read · Oct 10, 2026
Models & Cost

RunPod vs Vast: hourly price doesn't show what you paid for nothing

~27 min read · 10 Oct 2026
Reliability

Auto-tagging with a decision model: what worked, what didn't

~27 min read · 8 Oct 2026
Accounting

Can a Jev-style decision model cut accounting work? We tried it on Thai withholding tax

~27 min read · 6 Oct 2026
SME Business

The AI business map you keep seeing: half measured results, half guessed ones

~12 min read · 1 Oct 2026
Infra & Tools

Hostinger, Vercel, Cloudflare: pick by job, not intro price

~15 min read · Sep 30, 2026
SME Business

Outcome pricing sounds fair, until you ask who decides done

~10 min read · 16 Sep 2026
SME Business

Before you buy AI, pick the problem and how you will measure it

~10 min read · 15 Sep 2026
SME Business

AI-native services: Y Combinator's playbook is your competitor's plan

~10 min read · 14 Sep 2026
Product & PM

Ng says respect the org's constraints, not where to draw the line

~16 min read · 12 Sep 2026
Accounting

AI Has the Intelligence. Accountants Have the Context and Real-Time Accounting Data.

~13 min read · 11 Sep 2026
AI Agents

A guest file is a prompt your agent obeys

agent to agent protocol · ~11 min read · 2026-09-09
Accounting

AI replaces tasks, not professions. Here is the accounting map.

~23 min read · 7 Sep 2026
Reliability

After An Alien Mind, put the check on the artifact, not the report

~11 min read · 7 Sep 2026
SME Business

The blocker to enterprise AI is not the model, it is that nobody can prove the return

~22 min read · 7 Sep 2026
AI Agents

Andrew Ng names five skills for using coding agents. The third assumes your tests actually ran.

~14 min read · 5 Sep 2026
AI Agents

The guardrail that once saved us is now the brake

~15 min read · 30 Aug 2026
AI Agents

You didn't skip the decision. You made it without looking.

~10 min read · 30 Aug 2026
AI Agents

Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map

~10 min read · 22 Aug 2026
AI Agents

Good at Exams Is Not the Same as Finishing Real Work

~6 min read · 23 Aug 2026
AI Agents

One Agent Is Enough, Until the Evidence Says Otherwise

~6 min read · 23 Aug 2026
AI Agents

Before an Agent Acts, Someone Has to Approve It First

~6 min read · 23 Aug 2026
Models & Cost

What an AI gateway is, and why the pipe is worth more than what flows through it

~9 min · 22 Aug 2026
Models & Cost

When fine-tuning an LLM is worth it: four stages, and the line down the middle

~8 min · 22 Aug 2026
Models & Cost

Quantization in LLMs: the 1% that disappears, and nobody says where

~12 min · 22 Aug 2026
Models & Cost

How to read an LLM benchmark without being fooled

~9 min · 22 Aug 2026
Models & Cost

What is Physical AI? When AI leaves the screen and touches real things

~10 min · 22 Aug 2026
Infra & Tools

Terminal browser and markdown tools: what actually works

~9 min · 20 Aug 2026
Claude Skills

The commit lands. Nothing reaches runtime.

claude code plugin marketplace · ~8 min read · 2026-08-14
Reliability

Same task. Different directory. Opposite verdict.

ai eval baseline · ~8 min read · 2026-08-13
Claude Skills

The skill banned a character. The skill used it 54 times.

claude skill examples · ~8 min read · 2026-08-13
Claude Skills

60 skills were never called. We almost deleted them. Then we measured.

claude skill library · ~10 min read · 2026-08-13
AI Agents

Stop asking which one is better. Ask which one signs off.

codex vs claude code · ~12 min read · 2026-08-12
Reliability

Six AI readers, one 307-page book, and how to trust the result

ai read pdf · ~16 min read · 2026-08-08
Models & Cost

Swapping an AI's Brain Without Restarting the Session

llm fallback · ~12 min read · 2026-08-07
Infra & Tools

FalkorDB Rewrote Its Engine in Rust. We Upgraded a Live Graph and Measured It

falkordb rust · ~11 min read · 2026-08-05
Models & Cost

14 Models, One Budget: LLM Routing in Practice

llm routing · ~8 min read · 2026-08-03
AI Agents

system gate > per-agent prompt

AI agent guardrails · ~4 min read · 2026-08-03
Infra & Tools

What Is Raycast: A Search Bar That Does More Than Open Apps

spotlight alternative mac · ~10 min read · 2026-08-03
Reliability

Lighthouse score is not a design review

~7 min read · 31 Jul 2026
Knowledge & Memory

The freshest work in your head will crowd out the next answer

~6 min · Jul 31, 2026
Reliability

The Passing Test Was Telling Us to Delete Real Customers

~5 min · Jul 30, 2026
Accounting

There Are Two Profit Numbers, and Tax Uses the One Not in Your Books

~7 min · Jul 30, 2026
Accounting

Preparing Statements ≠ Reviewing Them: The Skill AI Cannot Replace

~8 min · Jul 30, 2026
AI Agents

Two Ways to Let AI Drive a Browser, Tested for Real

~8 min · Jul 29, 2026
Models & Cost

A more accurate model was waiting for $1.45. We chose not to use it.

kimi k3 review · ~7 min read · 2026-07-29
Models & Cost

Pool three idle machines into one LLM endpoint you own

~7 min read · Jul 25, 2026
AI Agents

Andrew Ng shipped an AI coworker that works on your machine, and still lets you keep control

~8 min read · Jul 24, 2026
Models & Cost

The GPU budget doesn't leak under load. It leaks when jobs crash silently

~7 min read · Jul 24, 2026
Infra & Tools

The daemon that died for two weeks, and nobody noticed

~9 min read · Jul 24, 2026
Product & PM

AI Built a Convincing Design System, and Got It All Wrong

~4 min · Jul 16, 2026
Models & Cost

The cheap model that gets to be wrong beats the expensive one that can't

~6 min read · Jul 15, 2026
Models & Cost

Why Claude Fable 5 switches models mid-conversation, and what it costs

~4 min · 11 Jul 2026
AI Agents

AI writes the code, but who signs for it

~3 min · 10 Jul 2026
SME Business

Your cash didn't disappear. It's asleep in the stockroom.

~10 min read · Jul 10, 2026
Accounting

The model misread a bill by five hundred baht. What caught it?

~6 min read · Jul 10, 2026
Models & Cost

Stop begging the model for JSON. Constrain it with a schema

~6 min read · Jul 10, 2026
Models & Cost

Modal GPU on a budget: 7 submerged stumps before the first clean run

~8 min read · Jul 10, 2026
Accounting

Certificate in lieu of receipt: when and how to use it for Thai tax deductions

~8 min read · Jul 10, 2026
Accounting

Choose an AI Bill Tool by the Job, Not the Feature List

~7 min · Jul 9, 2026
Product & PM

What is spec-driven development, and why non-coders can do it

~6 min read · Jul 9, 2026
Product & PM

How to write a PRD your AI can build from (template + example)

~8 min read · Jul 9, 2026
Product & PM

A vibe is not a spec: write a PRD your AI can build from

~7 min read · Jul 9, 2026
Product & PM

Build your own social listening tool in a weekend

~9 min read · Jul 8, 2026
Infra & Tools

Setting up Ghostty + Zsh without the one-command installer

~6 min · 8 Jul 2026
Infra & Tools

Ghostty vs iTerm2 vs Terminal.app: the best Mac terminal

~6 min · 8 Jul 2026
Reliability

The safety filter that was silently deleting your data

~9 min · 8 Jul 2026
Knowledge & Memory

AI knowledge management: build a system you can trust, layer by layer

~8 min · 8 Jul 2026
Claude Skills

allowedTools isn't file access: why your agent still gets permission denied

~6 min read · Jul 8, 2026
AI Visibility

Google search favicon: why it shows a globe instead of your icon

~6 min read · Jul 8, 2026
AI Visibility

Gated content without a backend: email-unlock on a Cloudflare Worker

~8 min read · Jul 7, 2026
Claude Skills

Your AI agents should not all carry the same skills

~8 min read · Jul 6, 2026
Claude Skills

“Make it pretty” is the wrong prompt

~8 min read · Jul 6, 2026
Reliability

We Told the Agent to “Verify It Works”. It Picked the Easiest Possible Meaning

~5 min read · Jul 6, 2026
Models & Cost

We Interviewed the Most Expensive AI Model in the House About Making Cheaper Ones Do Its Job

~12 min read · Jul 6, 2026
Models & Cost

Claude Opus vs Sonnet vs Fable 5: Which Model for Which Work

~7 min read · Jul 5, 2026
Models & Cost

23 free models on OpenRouter: the quota is real, the queue is not yours

~8 min read · Jul 4, 2026
Infra & Tools

Your static site can have AI. No backend. No API key.

~9 min read · Jul 4, 2026
Infra & Tools

Your AI agent doesn't need a bigger machine, it needs a home that never turns off

~10 min read · Jul 4, 2026
Models & Cost

A 27B model on a rented GPU with vLLM: the traps nobody writes down

~9 min read · Jul 3, 2026
Models & Cost

Renting a GPU for your own LLM: the expensive part is the idle hours

~9 min read · Jul 3, 2026
AI Agents

Claude Fable 5 as the head, everything else as hands

~15 min read · Jul 3, 2026
Claude Skills

Claude Code hooks: a done-voice

~8 min read · Jul 3, 2026
Product & PM

AI product management: what's left for PMs when the frameworks become skills

~8 min read · Jul 2, 2026
Product & PM

The whole GTM playbook in 12 skills, wired to cascade

~7 min read · Jul 2, 2026
Claude Skills

The YC president open-sourced his own stack. It's about taste

~7 min read · Jul 2, 2026
Product & PM

Product discovery as a pipeline, with two judgment calls baked in

~6 min read · Jul 2, 2026
Product & PM

The whole PM craft as ~68 skills

~6 min read · Jul 2, 2026
Claude Skills

9arm's skills repo is small, but it has one cost idea worth stealing

~5 min · Jul 2, 2026
Claude Skills

Addy Osmani agent-skills review: 24 production skills, 72.6k stars

~6 min · Jul 2, 2026
Claude Skills

mattpocock/skills review: a real engineer's .agents, 216k stars

~7 min · Jul 2, 2026
Claude Skills

Karpathy Skills review: one CLAUDE.md, 189k stars

~7 min · Jul 2, 2026
Claude Skills

Superpowers review: the AI agent repo blowing up, 243k stars

~9 min · Jul 2, 2026
AI Agents

What is an AI agent, vs a chatbot?

~6 min · Jul 2, 2026
AI Agents

AI Agent Architecture: The 7 Layers a Production Agent Needs

~9 min read · 1 Jul 2026
Reliability

The Ported Code Passed Every Test. It Was Still Wrong.

~9 min read · 1 Jul 2026
Accounting

From a Ledger Entry to Its Source Document, Checkable

~7 min · Jul 1, 2026
Accounting

From Statement and Books to a Reconciliation You Can Check

~7 min · Jul 1, 2026
Accounting

From a Photo of an Invoice to Import-Ready Data

~7 min · Jul 1, 2026
Accounting

Before AI helps you file, read the map first

~5 min · Jul 1, 2026
Claude Skills

A Skill Isn't Just a Longer Prompt

~5 min · Jun 30, 2026
Claude Skills

Don't Let the LLM Do the Math

~8 min · Jun 30, 2026
Reliability

The tool you trust to catch mistakes was the one making them

~7 min · Jun 30, 2026
AI Agents

I ran three AI coders at once. The agents weren't the cost.

~5 min · Jun 30, 2026
Knowledge & Memory

Your agent has all its rules. That doesn't mean it reaches them in time

~6 min · Jun 26, 2026
Reliability

When several AIs agree, that isn't proof

~4 min · Jun 26, 2026
AI Agents

Hand work to your AI fleet through a board, not a chat

~5 min · Jun 26, 2026
AI Agents

When parallel AI agents corrupt each other's work

~5 min · Jun 26, 2026
AI Agents

Don't marry one model: separate the soul, engine, and orchestrator

~6 min · Jun 26, 2026
Knowledge & Memory

AGENTS.md and SOUL.md: sharing knowledge across an AI fleet

~5 min · Jun 26, 2026
Infra & Tools

Connect two AI agents across machines without opening a port

~7 min · Jun 26, 2026
Reliability

The data that should never flow up

~5 min · Jun 25, 2026
Models & Cost

The best model is often the wrong one

~5 min · Jun 24, 2026
Reliability

Let Codex review the code AI wrote

~7 min · Jun 23, 2026
Knowledge & Memory

The real memory stack we run: Graphiti + FalkorDB

~6 min · Jun 23, 2026
Knowledge & Memory

Design AI memory the way human memory works

~9 min · Jun 23, 2026
AI Agents

AI coding agent fleet: the Kanban swarm pattern

~8 min · Jun 21, 2026
Infra & Tools

I Let AI Post to Social for Me, and the 3 Guardrails That Keep It Safe

~7 min · Jun 21, 2026
Reliability

Why Your AI Agent Lies to You

~6 min · Jun 20, 2026
AI Visibility

Make Your Site Agent-Ready: I Did 8, Refused 3

~7 min · Jun 19, 2026
AI Visibility

Let Claude cite you, block the trainers

~7 min read · Jun 18, 2026
Claude Skills

50 MCP servers, six calls

~5 min read · Jun 18, 2026
Claude Skills

Evaluating Claude Code plugins

~5 min read · Jun 17, 2026
Models & Cost

You Can Still Run Agents on a Subscription (For Now)

~8 min read · Jun 16, 2026
AI Visibility

Your Site Is Live. But Who Can See It?

~6 min read · Jun 16, 2026
AI Agents

Not Every Action Needs a Human

~8 min · 15 Jun 2026
Knowledge & Memory

Systematize turning speech into a second brain you can trust

~8 min · 14 Jun 2026
Knowledge & Memory

Transcribe on your own machine, faster than Whisper

~9 min read · 14 Jun 2026
AI Agents

Bring your AI into Discord, without handing over the keys

~11 min · 14 Jun 2026
Knowledge & Memory

Turn speech into trustworthy notes, without letting AI make things up

~10 min · 14 Jun 2026