•AI
AI Without Memory Is Just an Expensive Chatbot
I built 9 AI agents that forgot everything between conversations—wasting users 20-45 minutes weekly re-explaining their business. Here's how I made them share memory.
Blog
493 posts about AI, learning, and building products
•AI
Marketing Teams Work Together. Now STRATUM Does Too.
I shipped team collaboration features in alpha with <50 users because my customers were already working in teams—just through painful screenshots and copy-paste workarounds that cost 80+ hours per year.
•AI
My Database Was "Correct." It Was Also 296x Too Slow.
I discovered my Postgres database had 89 foreign keys but zero indexes on them—turning millisecond queries into 843ms nightmares and nearly killing my alpha launch.
•AI
Blank Screens Kill Trust. I Had 31 of Them.
I found 31 blank screens in my SaaS—all because I forgot multi-tenancy isn't just about data access, it's about URL context. Here's how Claude Code helped me fix them all in one night.
•AI
I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2. On Day 67, I Rebuilt It
I thought adding org_id to every table meant bulletproof multi-tenancy. Then my security audit revealed agencies were writing to SME tables—not through a bug, but by design.
•AI
I Knew What Agencies Needed—So I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2
After 20 years in agencies, I knew multi-tenant architecture couldn't wait—so on Day 2, with just one working AI agent, I tripled my dev complexity to avoid a future rewrite.
•AI
I Asked My AI Strategy Agent to Audit Our Landing Page. Here's What Happened
I fed my own landing page to my AI strategy agent and rebuilt it in 24 hours—conversion messaging transformed by dogfooding the product I'm selling.
•AI
STRAŦUM: The 9-Agent Marketing Application I Built in 75 Days (Solo, While Sick for 10)
I built a 9-agent marketing platform in 75 days that learns from every conversation—tell one agent about your business, and all nine get smarter together.
•AI
The HTTP/HTTPS Debugging Nightmare: A 24-Hour Journey Through Mixed Content Hell
I spent 24 hours debugging why my React app kept making HTTP requests from HTTPS pages—even though my code was converting them. The culprit shocked me.
•AI
4 Weeks in: Building a 10-Agent Marketing Platform While Taking Naps
I built 3 AI marketing agents with multi-tenant architecture in 4 weeks—the same amount I accomplished in a month building my previous product that took 7 months to launch.
•AI
Safer Deployments for Solo Devs: How I Used AI to Ship (a Feature Flag Story)
I almost shipped a major TTS engine swap by just "hoping for the best"—until my AI assistants flagged the risks and helped me build a bulletproof feature flag strategy instead.
•AI
From 3 Minutes to 500ms: The Signup Bug That Made No Sense
I hunted down a 3-minute signup delay that turned out to be Schrödinger's user—existing and not existing at the same time due to database replication lag between writes and reads.