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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.
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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.
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.
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No. 10AICrewAI is Good! - My First Impressions
No. 11AII Cheated: Sydney Can Now Read the Narrative in 10-K Reports
No. 12AILess Is More
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