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Thoughts on building with AI, engineering, and startups.

Stop Building Features. Start Building Pipelines.

Stop Building Features. Start Building Pipelines.

11 Apr 2026

The next wave of software isn't feature-driven. It's workflow-driven. Here's why pipelines create switching distance that features never will.

9 min read
The Content Engine Problem Nobody Talks About

The Content Engine Problem Nobody Talks About

11 Apr 2026

Scaling content with AI is easy. Making it actually feel like you, and not generic slop, is the hardest thing about building a brand in public.

8 min read
The Hidden Cost of Running AI (And How to Keep It Profitable)

The Hidden Cost of Running AI (And How to Keep It Profitable)

11 Apr 2026

Token costs kill more AI businesses than bad ideas do. Here's the real math behind AI SaaS margins and how to stay profitable.

10 min read
Why AI Agents Are the Hardest Engineering Problem You'll Never Talk About

Why AI Agents Are the Hardest Engineering Problem You'll Never Talk About

11 Apr 2026

Building the agent is easy. Getting it to actually work reliably in production, without hallucinating, without burning tokens, without going completely off rails, that's the real problem nobody demos.

10 min read
Bring Your Own Agents to Work

Bring Your Own Agents to Work

9 Apr 2026

Personal AI agents are coming to work. The hard part isn't adoption. It's governance, permissions, auditability, and safe interfaces.

11 min read
The Interface Layer for Personal AI

The Interface Layer for Personal AI

9 Apr 2026

Personal AI will not live in more dashboards. It will need one interface layer across watch, phone, car, and headset.

9 min read
How to Manage a Team of AI Agents

How to Manage a Team of AI Agents

8 Apr 2026

A practical guide to AI agent orchestration: org charts, task boards, dispatch patterns, and lessons from running 10+ agents daily.

12 min read
How to Secure AI-Generated Code Before Production

How to Secure AI-Generated Code Before Production

8 Apr 2026

AI can help you ship faster, but it can also help you ship vulnerabilities faster. Here's a practical security checklist for AI-built apps before they hit production.

9 min read
Building AI Agents So I Can Live More

Building AI Agents So I Can Live More

8 Apr 2026

Why I'm building an AI operating layer to create real output, reduce screen time, and buy back more life, not just more commits.

10 min read
Smart Token Consumption Is the New 10x Engineer

Smart Token Consumption Is the New 10x Engineer

8 Apr 2026

The biggest gains in agentic engineering come from better token economics: right-sized models, tighter loops, less context bloat, and fewer wasteful check-ins.

9 min read
The 100x Engineer Doesn't Write Code

The 100x Engineer Doesn't Write Code

8 Apr 2026

Programming complexity has always been abstracted upward. LLMs are the next layer, and the best engineers are becoming agent orchestrators.

9 min read
The API Is the Product for AI Features

The API Is the Product for AI Features

8 Apr 2026

The model call is only one dependency. If you want AI features that survive real usage, the API contract, latency budget, fallbacks, and orchestration layer matter more than the demo.

7 min read
Why Most AI Apps Die in the Backend

Why Most AI Apps Die in the Backend

8 Apr 2026

Prompts and polished UI get attention, but most AI products actually fail in queues, retries, state, evals, and data contracts.

8 min read
I Built 5 Products at 6AM and Nobody Cared

I Built 5 Products at 6AM and Nobody Cared

7 Apr 2026

Five years of building SaaS before sunrise. Five products ready to sell. Zero audience. Here's what went wrong and what I'm doing about it.

6 min read
Why 80% of AI Startups Will Fail

Why 80% of AI Startups Will Fail

7 Apr 2026

AI makes code free. That changes what wins. Here's what I'm betting on instead.

6 min read
I Gave My AI Agent Team an Org Chart

I Gave My AI Agent Team an Org Chart

6 Apr 2026

What happens when you treat AI agents like employees: task boards, specializations, dispatch rules, and the software I built to manage it all.

4 min read
The $0 Stack: Shipping SaaS on Free Tiers

The $0 Stack: Shipping SaaS on Free Tiers

5 Apr 2026

The exact tools I use to build and ship multiple SaaS products without spending a cent on infrastructure. Neon, Vercel, Cloudflare, and more.

4 min read
Why I'm Building a Portfolio of AI-Native SaaS Products

Why I'm Building a Portfolio of AI-Native SaaS Products

3 Apr 2026

The thesis behind Axislabs: multiple AI-native bets, one holding company, and why the timing matters more than people think.

3 min read
Building with AI Agents: What I've Learned So Far

Building with AI Agents: What I've Learned So Far

1 Apr 2026

Practical lessons from building AI agent-powered products at Axislabs — what works, what doesn't, and where this is all heading.

3 min read