Writing
Notes on the craft.
Jun 2026 Jun 2026 May 2026 Mar 2025 Feb 2025
Everyone has agents now. Almost nobody can operate them.
Building an agent takes an afternoon in 2026. Running one you can trust — observability, evals, cost ceilings, blast radius — is the part nobody's framework solved.
What HIPAA actually means for your mobile architecture
HIPAA never tells you what to build — it tells you what your data can never do. Treat it as an architecture input on day one, or pay for the rebuild later.
The hidden cost of the wrong stack (lessons from the bootstrapped side)
When runway is the product, a stack choice is a financial decision wearing a technical costume. The real costs never show up in the framework comparison.
Leading a team through ambiguity without slowing down
Ambiguity isn't the exception in early-stage work — it's the default. Here's how to keep moving without pretending you know more than you do.
Making AI actually useful in production
What changes when an LLM has to be reliable, observable, and on-call at 3am — not just impressive in a demo.