#Founder's Log
9 articles — newest first.
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How I Went From My First Dev Job to Building AI Systems
Five years, honestly told: an ASP.NET healthcare backend in 2021, full-stack MERN through the ChatGPT shift, nights of embeddings homework, and finally shipping five AI products solo. The journey, without the gloss.
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I Shipped 5 Products in 12 Months, Solo
Five production systems — a realtime telemetry cockpit, a workflow engine, a local-first AI finance agent, and two autonomous pipelines — designed, built, and shipped by one engineer. Here's the operating model.
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Vision Over Syntax: Design Before Code
Syntax is solved; vision is not. How architecture-first thinking — data contracts, trust boundaries, and deliberate refusals — is the real engineering skill in the AI era, shown through shipped products.
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One Architect + Claude + MCP = A Full Squad
The exact three-layer operating model — architect, Claude Code, MCP-wired systems — that lets one engineer ship like a squad, and the 30-day plan for installing it inside a real company.
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Your Company Is Overpaying for AI by 80%
Most production AI traffic is simple or repetitive, yet it's billed at frontier-model prices. The cache → flash → frontier cascade that fixes the economics, with a live interactive cost simulator.
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My Networking Runs Itself: A LinkedIn Pipeline
How I engineered consistency: an autonomous GitHub Actions pipeline that turns real work into scheduled LinkedIn posts, tracks state in Git, costs $0 to run — and what the same pattern automates inside a company.
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The $0 Content Engine That Runs Itself
A cron-scheduled pipeline drafts articles with Gemini, writes MDX, commits to Git, and redeploys the static site — no CMS, no server, no database, no bill. The architecture of refusing infrastructure.
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An AI Money Agent That Can't Touch the Money
Sable is a local-first AI financial agent: all data in on-device SQLite, no cloud backend, and a Review & Confirm boundary where the model proposes but only a human commits. The trust architecture, explained.
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Hire My Head, Not My Hands
AI made hands abundant; heads stayed scarce. The closing argument of the Founder's Log series — the architectural judgment pattern across five shipped products, addressed to the person deciding whether to interview me.