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Building in Public-June 30, 2026-7 min read

A Place to Stand

Leverage needs a solid foundation. This essay explores why most ambitious projects fail by neglecting the 'place to stand'—the unseen, unglamorous work that…

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Building in Public-June 30, 2026-12 min read

One Dummy, One Engineer, One Million Lines

How a non-technical founder and a single engineer built and scaled a stable AI system to over a million lines of code. This series reveals the discipline…

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Building in Public-June 30, 2026-7 min read

Telling It What Not to Do

This essay explores why telling an AI 'don't' isn't enough. Learn how to build boundaries a machine can't argue past, moving from soft no to hard no, and…

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Building in Public-June 30, 2026-6 min read

The Human in the Loop

This essay explores why human accountability is indispensable in automated systems, particularly for decisions impacting real lives. Removing the human, the…

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Building in Public-June 30, 2026-7 min read

The Immune System

Explore how systems, like the human body, build strength not by avoiding failure, but by learning from every disaster. Discover the "immune system" approach…

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