My First AI Client Doesn't Use Computers.
I spent 6 months chasing my first AI consulting client. He walked up while I paid to get my car fixed, and he barely touches a computer.
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Essays and observations on building with AI from an operator's desk.
My AI Is a Genius Who Never Learned to Cross the Street.
Replit's AI deleted a production database during a code freeze. The smartest tool you use will walk into traffic. Here's how to build the railings around it.
My Wife Is Usually Right. I Build It Anyway.
My wife tells me where the project is thin, and she's usually right. I build it anyway. The problem was never building alone. It was overruling the room.
I Sell AI for a Living. Take the Phone Out of Your House.
I sell AI skills for a living, and I'm telling you to take the phone out of your house. Not because I beat the addiction. Because I lost to it, and removed it.
I Built 26 Products. The One That Worked Rents Washing Machines.
I shipped 26 products in 34 months and sold almost none. The one that finally worked rents washing machines. Here's what building taught me about selling.
Rick Rubin Called Himself a Reducer, Not a Producer. So Should You.
On the records that made his career, Rick Rubin printed 'reduced by' instead of 'produced by.' Selection is the AI-era moat synthesis can't copy.
AI Isn't Replacing You. It's Waiting for Instructions.
The fight isn't AI vs. you. It's whether you're willing to teach it how to do your work. Why both AI doomers and AI maximalists miss the point.