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If You Can Build It in a Weekend, So Can Your Competitor
Production AI· Jul 24, 2026· 5 min read

If You Can Build It in a Weekend, So Can Your Competitor

Wrapping a model isn't a moat. Where AI actually creates defensibility for a startup — and where it just commoditizes you alongside everyone else.

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Can You Trust an AI Agent With Your Customer Data?
Production AI· Jul 17, 2026· 5 min read

Can You Trust an AI Agent With Your Customer Data?

The data-privacy and security questions every founder should ask before letting an agent touch customers, payments, or PII — in plain language, not a compliance lecture.

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Guardrails: The Boring Work That Keeps AI Out of the Headlines
Production AI· Jun 28, 2026· 3 min read

Guardrails: The Boring Work That Keeps AI Out of the Headlines

Every AI failure that makes the news shares a missing guardrail. They're the unglamorous constraints that turn a confident-but-risky agent into one you can actually trust.

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Why Your AI Demo Won't Survive Real Users
Production AI· Jun 28, 2026· 3 min read

Why Your AI Demo Won't Survive Real Users

The demo was flawless. Then real users touched it. The gap between a demo that wows and a system that survives is the unglamorous work that decides whether AI ships.

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Evals for People Who Aren't ML Engineers
Production AI· Jun 27, 2026· 3 min read

Evals for People Who Aren't ML Engineers

Evals sound like data-science jargon. They're just a way to test whether your AI is any good, on purpose, on a cadence. Here's how to build your first one with a spreadsheet.

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The 70/30 Method: Building With AI Agents Without Betting the Company on Them
Production AI· Jun 15, 2026· 4 min read

The 70/30 Method: Building With AI Agents Without Betting the Company on Them

Why I let AI agents handle about 70% of the work and keep 30% for senior judgment — and how that ratio keeps AI projects out of the ditch.

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How I Build AI Agents That Actually Ship
Production AI· Aug 1, 2025· 3 min read

How I Build AI Agents That Actually Ship

Most AI agents die in the demo. Here's the process I use to get them into production — and the unglamorous parts that decide whether they survive contact with real users.

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