Dispatches
Field notes on building AI systems that actually work for real businesses. Written by practitioners, not marketers.
When AI Handles Execution, Taste Becomes the Job
The skill that separates great engineers from good ones isn't coding speed anymore. It's calibration.
The Harness Manifesto
The Harness Manifesto, Part 12
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How We Built Ours (And What We'd Do Differently)
The Harness Manifesto, Part 11
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Stop Building Products. Start Building Systems.
McDonald's didn't build the best burger. They built the best burger-making system.
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The $143 Billion Reason to Own Your AI Infrastructure
The Harness Manifesto, Part 10
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Why We Stopped Using n8n (And What Replaced It)
The Harness Manifesto, Part 9
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Your Code Isn't Your Moat. Here's What Is.
In a world where AI can replicate most code in weeks, the only durable advantages are the ones you can't clone.
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The Anatomy of a Skill That Actually Works
The Harness Manifesto, Part 8
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Build Your Personal Context Portfolio in a Weekend
The Harness Manifesto, Part 7
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Software Gravity Just Inverted. Most Businesses Haven't Noticed.
Why bespoke software is suddenly cheaper than SaaS.
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Security Is a Harness Problem (Not a Model Problem)
The Harness Manifesto, Part 6
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The Karpathy Test: Can You Stop Typing?
The Harness Manifesto, Part 5
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We Built 175 Skills. Then We Had to Build a Kung Fu Manual to Remember Them All.
How a sprawling skill library became an illustrated martial arts codex.
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Skills Crossed a Threshold. Your Team Missed It.
The Harness Manifesto, Part 4
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Anthropic Just Told You How AI Works at Your Business
The Harness Manifesto, Part 3. Routines shipped. Conway is next. Here's what both mean if you run a small business — no engineering background required.
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The Two Futures of Work — and Why the Bottom-Up One Is Yours
Two essays came out in the last few weeks that describe the same shift and almost nothing else in common.
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I Speed-Ran 1,000 Hours of AI in 80 Days. Here's What I'd Skip.
What a serial entrepreneur learned burning through the AI learning curve at an unreasonable pace.
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The Model Is Commoditized. The Harness Is the Business.
The Harness Manifesto, Part 1 — Why the only defensible asset in AI isn't the model you picked, it's the system you built around it.
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What Is an AI Harness? (And Why You Already Have One)
The Harness Manifesto, Part 2. Five layers, a scorecard, and where to start if you scored low.
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