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Execution Is Cheap Now — Evals Are the Job
I routed my whole workday through Claude — email, Slack, research, tickets. The throughput gain was the boring part. The interesting part is what's left for me to do.
#future-of-work
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Confessions of a Silicon Valley PM: AI Lab Secrets, Rest-and-Vest Hangovers, and the Myth of the Mentor
A conversation with a Silicon Valley product manager — the traffic-light framework for PM decisions, whether to validate a side project with interviews or a POC, the real inside story on DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta, and how hard it is to find a mentor in Silicon Valley.
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Conversation With the CEO of a $200M Company
A documented conversation with a startup CEO — going deep on go-to-market, the SEO engine I built at a developer platform, my own startup and why it closed, dropping out, risk-taking, and how AI is reshaping GTM and entry-level work.
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A Walk With Cursor's Ian Huang: Coding Agents, Startups, and Remembering to Document the Process
Notes from a walk with Cursor's Ian Huang in San Francisco: coding agents, product validation and startups, then personal brand, education, philosophy, and how to build the life you actually want.
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Linear, Jira, and the Case Against Product Management Tools
Paying for Linear or Jira might be one of the worst investments a company makes. A first-principles look at why PM tools exist, and what replaces them once AI can render the interface.
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Why Big Companies Are Building Their Own Coding Agents
Ramp built Inspect, Stripe built Minions, Block built goose. Cursor and Claude Code exist and are excellent — so why are these companies rolling their own? The answer is context, integration, and ownership, and it says something about where the moat in AI engineering actually sits.
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When Your Best Hire Asks for a Compute Budget
Notes from an interview with Perplexity's Dmitry Shevelenko — why every knowledge worker is becoming an executive, what Perplexity learned watching CEOs out-adopt their own employees, and why agentic checkout is overhyped.
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Stop Treating AI as a Tool — It's a Digital Employee That Needs Onboarding
Notes from the Crossroads podcast on Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs), why most enterprise AI projects fail, and the shift from selling slide decks to shipping working agents.
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When AI Builds Itself: Reading Anthropic's Recursive Self-Improvement Essay
Anthropic says 80% of its own code is now written by Claude. I read their recursive self-improvement essay, checked the numbers, and separated what they actually claimed from the doom-spin around it.