Open Design 0.16.1: A Design Harness for Coding Agents
Open Design is easy to misread. The name also belongs to the older open-design movement around shared product blueprints, but this article is about …
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Claude Code Playbook: 10 Configurations for Reliable Agent Workflows
Put the Tip List Down for a Moment I began this article as a collection of Boris Cherny’s Claude Code habits. That version had a problem: social …
Loop Engineering for Solo Builders: Verifiers, State, and Safe Automation
Why Does Getting Better at This Make Me More Tired? Let me start with a strange thing I banged my head against for a long time before I understood …
A Solo Creator's AI Video Editing Pipeline That Actually Works
Last winter I ran a very ugly set of numbers. I’d spent an entire afternoon in a café, writing code and shooting footage in between - about forty …
When Anyone Can Build the Thing, "He Built It" Becomes the Signal
Same product, different name, different score There’s something I’ve been watching for a long time without finding the right place to write it down. …
Distribution for Solo Builders: Your Readers Can't Be Copied
I wasted years on this one sentence “If the product is good enough, people will come.” I believed that line for years. It fits the engineer’s …
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Records Are Not Mirrors, But Scissors: What Tool You Use Ultimately Shapes Who You Become
This piece is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are composed of cognitive science, archival studies, and product …
Environment as the Hidden Author: Why Moving Cities Feels Like Becoming Someone Else
This piece is a thought experiment conducted through simulated interviews. The two interviewees are fictional characters synthesized from …
When Distance No Longer Changes You: What Keeps Life Moving After Exploration Fails
This is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are fictional characters composed of developmental psychology, field …
July 2026 Thought Notes: Engineering, Content and Cash Flow
Quick Navigation Start with the long read: 9 sections in the body above. 17 archived notes this month, filed under 7 themes: Daily Notes and …
Every Path Has a Price
This is the final essay in Reckoning with Reality. The first six considered profit, competence, action, feedback, and technology. The last returns …
After AI Solves a Problem, Where Does the Bottleneck Move?
This is the sixth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay separated fast feedback from slow results. This one turns to a question that …
