Series · 12 chapters
Vibe Coding
How a non-technical founder built, scaled, and hardened a stable AI system she can't read — with one engineer — and is still going. A building-in-public series, best read in order.
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One Dummy, One Engineer, One Million Lines
Most AI prototypes turn to sand, but ours didn't. Discover how a non-technical founder and one engineer built a stable, million-line AI system that still…
12 min readChapter 2
The Emperor Who Knew Nothing
A rogue who couldn't do anything won an empire and accidentally wrote the only prompt that matters. Discover the power of asking "what should be done here?"
7 min readChapter 3
The Two-Speed Mind
I'd built the machine that took a customer's money the same way I'd built a font button: fast, loose. The font didn't matter. Her money did. That's the…
9 min readChapter 4
The Immune System
A quiet complaint revealed a critical flaw: a job stuck, taking money, saying nothing. This led to a profound realization about system strength: never the…
7 min readChapter 5
Every User a Product Manager
A two-person company can't afford a QA or product team. So we built a machine that lets our users do both, turning real-world problems into prioritized…
7 min readChapter 6
The MBA Was an AI Manual
Half of what business school taught me just died. The other half became code. The cruelest theory in the canon turned out to be the kind one.
5 min readChapter 7
Telling It What Not to Do
I told it not to, but it touched it anyway. Discover why a boundary made of words is only a suggestion, and how to build one a machine can't argue past.
7 min readChapter 8
A Place to Stand
Everyone wants the leverage, but few build the fulcrum. Discover why true leverage isn't about longer levers, but firmer ground, and how to build the…
7 min readChapter 9
Company as Code
What if your company ran itself? This essay reveals how one leader compiled a marketing team like code, transforming an org chart into a self-executing…
10 min readChapter 10
The Knowledge Engine
Making yourself replaceable on purpose: the strangest and most freeing thing I've built. This 'knowledge engine' codifies tacit knowledge to achieve freedom.
7 min readChapter 11
The Human in the Loop
The machine never gets to make the decisions that truly matter—the ones touching real lives. Why 'remove the human' is the most dangerous idea in the room,…
6 min readChapter 12
The Distance Between Us
The whole series walked toward this: the distance between us is collapsing. But the industry is getting it backwards, trying to remove the people instead of…
7 min read
