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• The 30-Second Test That Reveals a Bad AI Chatbot

  Ask a demo chatbot something that is definitely not in the documentation. A good one hands you to a human. A bad one invents a policy you don't have.

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  2026-08-02

• Hardening an AI Chatbot: A Real Adversarial Prompt from the Wild

  A user told our chatbot his colleagues had ordered it to rebook his appointment. The bot believed him. Here is what we changed.

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  2026-06-10

• Plugin Purgatory: When Power Tools Become the Bottleneck

  I lost hours fighting file manager plugins to open a custom archive format. Then I closed them all and built my own viewer in 15 minutes.

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  2026-05-28

• 22,000 Lines Later: What Happens When AI Reviews Your Code Every Morning

  I added 22,393 lines of code this week. Solo. And every morning at 9:00 AM, before my first coffee, two AI models had already reviewed it.

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  2026-03-28

• The Real Cost of Meetings in an AI-First World

  Last week I wrote ~14,400 lines of code. Solo. In 7 days. That's not a flex — it's a data point. And it changes the math on everything, including meetings.

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  2026-03-23

• Watch Every Line of AI Code. Is It Possible at 2K Lines/Day?

  There's a belief in engineering culture that you should read every line of code that goes into your codebase. But what happens when AI bumps that to 2,000 lines a day? The honest answer: no, you can't. Here's how to adapt.

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  2026-03-17

• The New Benchmark: 2000 Lines of Code a Day

  For 20 years, 100 lines a day felt normal. Now with AI agents, that pace feels super slow. We set a new benchmark: 2000 lines per day. We'll do our best to get there.

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  2026-03-16

• How We Started a Coop Journey to 10x Me

  After 20 years of coding, I started building a team of AI agents to multiply what I can ship. This is how the 10x Me journey began — and what we're learning along the way.

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  2026-03-13

• Parting Ways with Synot

  A deep dive into how we scoped, tested, and iterated a product-led growth approach for Synot Peak, driving cross-functional alignment and measurable impact. After more than three years, I'm taking away hard-won lessons from building a global retention platform.

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  2026-03-01