Sep 1, 2026
Cutting staff to make room for AI: why it is almost always the wrong move
AI FOMO pushes teams to cut people too early. Inference cost, vendor lock-in, and lost competence: what to calculate before you adopt.
Notes on product, AI automation, and technical decisions.
No editorial gloss.
Aug 25, 2026
Your MVP validates nothing (and often is not even in production)
Many MVPs are not a test and not live: they stay demos, staging, videos. What separates an MVP in production from an incomplete product that validates nothing.
Aug 18, 2026
"Everyone can use it" means you still do not know who you are building for
"Everyone can use it" signals the customer has not been chosen. How to find a behavioral ICP, and why Snowinch will not work a scope built for everyone.
Aug 11, 2026
Positive feedback but zero sales: the gap between interest and purchase intent
Demos that land and LinkedIn likes, then silence at checkout. How to tell interest from purchase intent before you have a finished product.
Aug 4, 2026
AI lets you build sooner: it does not tell you if anyone pays
AI speeds up the prototype, not proof that anyone pays. Why build speed hides market risk, and what to validate before you add more generated code.
Jul 28, 2026
Why launch strategy beats the product: the niche marketplace case
The right product with the wrong launch still fails. Market entry angle, niche marketplaces, and the difference between MVP and MMP.
Jul 21, 2026
Validating an idea is not enough: if data and live do not hold, you just wasted time
Validating an idea is not enough if live cannot hold users, data, and sleep. What is missing after the hypothesis, and why data security is not a later extra.
Jul 14, 2026
Async job queue patterns in production: retry, dead letter, and concurrency
Production job queues: exponential backoff retries, dead letters, worker idempotency, graceful shutdown, and the minimum metrics worth watching.
Jul 7, 2026
Automatic PR code review with Claude Code: custom commands and project rules
Automatic PR review with Claude Code: CLAUDE.md, a /review-pr command, a local pre-push workflow, and the limits versus a human reviewer.
Jul 1, 2026
Signals your production LLM stopped behaving like before
Production LLM drift: deterministic metrics (schema, length, fallback, latency) so you notice silent degradation without using an LLM as a judge.