Writing
Mostly about shipping under pressure.
AI adoption in a small teamWhat we tried at a small startup, what actually got used, and what turned out to be redundantThe Slot Machine of ShippingYou can ship in a weekend now. So why does it feel worse sometimes? On LLMs, FOMO, and the slot machine of building.Poor Man's Solutions: Convenient in-memory cacheKeeping carbon methodology factors in memory worked fine, right up until one of them arrived as a 40GB database.Poor Man's Solutions: Building Fast Under PressureA series about pragmatic, often imperfect engineering choices made under tight deadlines. Starting with why there's no cookbook for them.Ditch the FOMO scrollMy take on FOMO and how to start building instead of whining