Thoughts, Tips & Insights
Expert guides on MVP development, AI integration, tech stacks, and scaling startups from idea to launch.
Irresistible Bot took one month and $5,000. That budget doesn't buy an AI strategy. It buys one job done well. Here's the four-part test for which jobs fit in 30 days, and what we'd tell you not to build at that price. Read more
AI vendors say output varies, so the price can't be fixed. The output does vary. The test you judge it by doesn't have to. A narrow acceptance test in four parts turns an open-ended AI project into one both sides can price and sign off. Read more
We write production code with AI agents every day, and we get hired to take over codebases that agents wrote with nobody steering. The tool is the same. Here is what we hand the agent, what never leaves a human, and the one rule behind both. Read more
Four public, sourced vibe-coding incidents from March 2025 to early 2026: a paywall enforced in the browser, apps with open databases, an AI agent that wiped production, and a leaked database key. Only one is known to have died. Here is what broke in each. Read more
Picking one tool for a whole workflow is the mistake. Split it into steps first. Rules go in code, plumbing between systems goes in a workflow tool like n8n, and a model handles only the steps that are genuinely ambiguous. Here's how to tell which is which. Read more
AI coding tools make the same mistakes because they get asked the same questions. Here are the seven defects we look for first in a vibe-coded app, from paywalls enforced in the browser to AI features with unguarded tools, and a check for each. Read more
The deadline slipped twice and the Slack went quiet. Stalled agency projects tend to stall the same way, and the signs show up months early. Here are the five patterns, a five-minute check, and what to do when three of them match. Read more
Coaching platforms are being told to add an AI coach. We'd build the opposite first: automate the admin around each session and leave the coaching to the coach. Here's the split we use, from five years of building Coaching Genie with Milana Leshinsky. Read more
Founders keep paying agencies that stopped shipping because firing them feels harsh. They were paid and they didn't deliver. Here is the email to send, the four things to have ready first, and what to do the morning after. Read more
What happens in the two weeks between letting the old team go and a working production deploy. Day by day: what the audit checks, what you own by day 3, what ships first, and the three steps founders most often skip. Read more
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