Watch, Read, Listen
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Most product teams have a quiet problem they don’t talk about enough: Everyone is working from a slightly different version of the product. Sales is pitching what they think exists.Product is planning what should exist.Engineering is building what was specified—weeks or months ago. And then AI shows up, and suddenly that ambiguity isn’t just inefficient—it’s…
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TL;DR Put this prompt into your AI Assistant: “I want to increase observability in my legacy project, and make it a critical component of all future development using speckit.” If you’re managing an engineering team, you already know this pattern: The issue isn’t a lack of data. It’s a lack of structured insight. Combining AI…
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I thought I had already learned this lesson. I had written it down once: do not put OPENAI_API_KEY in a global shell environment when using Codex over VS Code Remote SSH. ChatGPT billing and OpenAI API billing are separate systems. If Codex sees an API key, it may use API billing instead. That mistake cost…
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See an important follow up to this post first! I wanted a simple system: watch Gmail for messages that actually matter—especially job application replies—and send a WhatsApp alert when something actionable shows up. The first version worked. It was also unnecessarily complicated. What I really needed was something predictable, cheap to run, and easy to…
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I’ve been a ChatGPT Plus user for about two years. I’m a developer, and I use Codex constantly—it’s easily my preferred AI for coding. Most of my work happens over Remote SSH on a headless Ubuntu box I run called NATHAN. It sits quietly on my local subnet behind a firewall, doing real work. This…
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There’s an uncomfortable idea I can’t shake: What if the only way to keep the future of medicine open… is to grab it first? That sounds aggressive—because it is. But it might also be necessary. The Problem: Innovation Gets Locked Up Modern medicine doesn’t just run on science—it runs on intellectual property. When a company…
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There’s a comparison people don’t like to make—but probably should: artificial intelligence and guns. At first glance, they seem worlds apart. One is software; the other is hardware. One lives in data centers; the other in holsters and safes. But at their core, both are immensely powerful tools that amplify human capability. And that amplification…
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I ran into something recently that felt simple on the surface but turned into a bit of a rabbit hole: VS Code just… wasn’t updating. No errors. No warnings. Just silently stuck on an old version while everything else on the system updated fine. And every time I started VSCode it said “There is a…
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There’s a lot of excitement around AI writing code. And that excitement is justified. AI can produce code faster than any individual developer ever could. It can scaffold services, write tests, generate APIs, and even refactor existing systems. But the best way to understand AI isn’t as a replacement for engineers. It’s as something else…
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When I was working for Palm, I came to them because they bought out startup AnyDay.com. If you believe in patents, which I don’t, we invented the online calendar, which is why they bought us. After the dotcom crash at the end of 2001, Palm decided in their shortsighted way that their future was as…