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The Video You've Been Putting Off Takes Five Minutes Now
You shipped something real and nobody knows it exists. Video used to mean gear, a crew, and an edit. Now it's a short script and about five minutes, which moves the hard part to whether you've got something worth watching.
Encoded Judgment: How a Cheap Model Performs Like an Expensive One
I ran a product team that captured every customer question into a playbook before handing it off. That old loop is exactly how you make a cheap AI model carry expensive work.
Loop Engineering: For me it's about using dumber models and smarter code
My take on loop engineering: push judgment onto dumber, cheaper models and smarter code over time, so a long-running agent gets cheaper and more trustworthy with use.
What AI Found Hiding in 74 Posts I Never Planned
I put AI to work on the boring part of my site: reading 74 posts to surface the topics, audiences, and cross-links that were hiding in them all along.
Inside a Claude Skill: The Eight Steps That Build the Red Dot skill
I open the hood on the Claude Skill that builds mirror assessments — the eight-step pipeline, the single spec it compiles, and the checker that won't ship broken.
How a Claude Skill Converts Leads With a Quiz
I gave a one-page brief to a new Claude Skill and got back a working lead-gen quiz — a design doc and a hostable assessment. Here's how the skill does it.
Everyone needs a Custom Assessment
Everyone needs a custom assessment, and when you think of your own experiences, you'll agree with me.
Five Paradigm Shifts You Need to Embrace About AI
Five paradigm shifts from three years building with AI: design time over runtime, judgment over prompts, real feedback loops, conversation, and knowledge that's built, not stored.
How to Tell If Your Scoreboard Is Lying to You
A pizza shop's flyer contest shows why your AI scoreboard can climb while the work gets worse - and why a measure that can't be gamed is the real job.
Knowledge Isn't Stored. It's Built.
Why storage is the wrong question for knowledge, and how decomposing content into a graph builds answers no document ever held. The MCode Coach story.
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