Articles on engineering that ships.
Notes from shipping AI products, modernizing brittle codebases, and running engineering engagements. Practical, opinionated, and written for founders + product teams.
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What breaks when you take an AI prototype to production
The gap between a working LLM demo and a reliable product is wider than most teams expect. Here are the five failure modes I see most often, and how to engineer around them.
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Fractional tech lead vs full-time CTO: the break-even math
When does hiring a full-time CTO actually make sense, and when is a fractional tech lead the better call? A concrete decision framework with real numbers.
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How I'd untangle a brittle codebase in 30 days
A step-by-step playbook for turning a codebase that slows down every change into one that ships reliably without a ground-up rewrite.
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From idea to shipped product: what founders get wrong in month one
The first month of building a product decides whether you ship in three months or nine. Here are the four decisions founders get wrong most often, and what to do instead.
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