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Thoughts, tutorials, and learnings from my journey in tech.

AI Made Your MVP Cheaper, But It Didn't Lower The Main Risk

AI collapsed the cost of building an MVP and did nothing to lower the risk of building something nobody needs. The expensive mistake was never the code.

#mvp #lean startup #artificial intelligence

Clean Code Was Never The Point

The only thing worth anything in your software is what happens when the CPU runs it. The source code never had value to the end user, and AI made that impossible to ignore.

#software development #code quality #artificial intelligence

Coding With AI Is Like Driving A Race Car

Coding with AI is like driving a race car. Too fast for anyone who doesn't know the track. The problem was never the car.

#artificial intelligence #software development #no-code

Reinvent the Wheel. As Many Times as You Need

Reinventing the wheel is a valid learning strategy, and the friction you feel while doing it is the learning itself.

#learning #career #deliberate practice

An MVP Is A Scientific Experiment Designed To Reduce Uncertainty

Most teams treat an MVP as a small product. It isn't. It's a scientific experiment designed to reduce uncertainty, and confusing the two is expensive.

#lean startup #product development #mvp

Simulating A Systolic Array With SIMD (Kind Of)

A simple simulation of a systolic array using SIMD operations in Rust to speed up matrix multiplication.

#TPU #rust #systolic array

Learn How To Build A Big Mass Of Knowledge With A Simple Workflow

A guide on how to use the Zettelkasten system to build a large knowledge base and produce meaningful work.

#zettelkasten #knowledge management #productivity