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Ideas, Insights, and the Occasional Hot Take

Thoughts on engineering workflows, AI tooling, and building products that work.

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How We Used Agentic AI to Put Weather-Based Shipping Decisions on Autopilot

A look at the Automatic Weather Recheck feature and what it teaches us about the real promise of agentic AI in logistics.

AILogisticsAgentic AIWeatherFreight
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Stop Letting Your AI Make Things Up: How MCP Grounds LLMs in Real Data

Hallucinations are the most embarrassing thing an AI can do, and the most dangerous. Here's the architectural pattern that makes them structurally impossible for anything the AI is supposed to know.

AIMCPEngineeringLLMs
|5 min read

How AI Assistants Pay for Themselves in 90 Days

It is 9:14 PM and a customer with a real problem just landed on your website. Your office is closed. That lead is gone. Here is the math on why a $250/month AI assistant is the highest-ROI investment a small business can make.

Small BusinessAILead GenerationAI Assistants
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What to Look for in a Technical Co-Founder

Sixty days from first conversation to Shopify App Store. Two people, no funding, no engineering team. Here is what made that partnership work and the three questions you should ask before choosing your technical counterpart.

FoundersStartupsProductAI
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The API-First Workflow That Changed How I Build Fullstack Features

Starting every feature from the backend API sounds backwards until you realize it eliminates an entire category of coordination problems. Here is the workflow that cut my fullstack development time in half.

EngineeringAPI DesignWorkflowFullstack