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Notes from the work

Essays on building and selling products — applied frameworks, working notes, and case studies from the work. Honest takes, no growth-hacking.

Identical wireframe cubes ride a dark conveyor through glowing ring gates, the last cube past the final gate lit green — modules clearing quality gates
7 min read

The Terraform module factory: gates, not prompts

Module libraries rot because standards live in prose and reviewers enforce them from memory. This repo turns every standard into a machine-checkable gate, then lets a coding agent do the work. A tour of the harness, and what it changes in a platform team's week.

  • Terraform
  • Platform Engineering
  • AI Agents
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9 min read

The wall is you: long-running agents and the 4 levels of AI

The bottleneck in AI work is the human in the middle handing out tasks. Long-running autonomous agents are the specific mechanism that removes you from the loop, and as of Opus 4.8 they ship rather than loom. The optimist's case for climbing to Level 3.

  • AI Agents
  • Opus 4.8
  • Autonomy
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15 min read

A production-grade Postgres recipe for ~$7/mo

Managed Postgres at small scale starts at $25–70 per project per month. There's a middle ground the debate usually skips: one cheap VPS, multiple projects, real backups, real DR, ~$7/mo total. This is the recipe.

  • PostgreSQL
  • Self-hosting
  • Recipe
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12 min read

How to get mentioned by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Perplexity

AI agents now decide who gets seen on the web. The peer-reviewed research is in, and the playbook is clearer than most posts make it sound — six moves, in priority order, for anyone running a brand, a portfolio, or a product.

  • GEO
  • AI Search
  • SEO
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12 min read

How to build a Grand Slam Offer

Businesses lose deals when their offer looks like every other offer in the market, because price becomes the only lever left. This is Alex Hormozi's framework for fixing that, distilled into one read.

  • Offers
  • Hormozi
  • Business
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