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Building

The craft pillar.

What it means to build with AI, who builds, and how the work is shaped. The practical craft of operating as an AI builder: techniques, patterns, and the lived experience of shipping with AI.

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Who is an AI builder?

Articles

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What is shared state for agents?MAY 27, '26
What is AI-powered distribution?MAY 20, '26
What is the agent graduation path?MAY 20, '26
What is an agent context protocol?MAY 7, '26
What is the coordination layer?MAY 7, '26
What is system-first building?APR 30, '26
What is the agent org?APR 30, '26
What is AI building?APR 17, '26
What is an agent team?APR 17, '26
What is an AI agent?APR 17, '26
What is an AI-native product?APR 17, '26
What is prompt engineering?APR 17, '26
What is the builder's toolkit in 2026?APR 17, '26
Who is an AI builder?APR 12, '26

Weeklies

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Memory Is The PastJUN 3, '26
More Agents, More ProblemsMAY 27, '26
Co-Piloting Won't ScaleMAY 20, '26
The Distribution Gap Is ClosingMAY 13, '26
You're The BottleneckMAY 6, '26
Build The Agent OrgAPR 29, '26
Design Is Not Your Problem AnymoreAPR 22, '26
The Human At The EdgesAPR 1, '26
Stop Automating. Start Eliminating.FEB 11, '26
Why Smart Operators Are Still Doing Dumb WorkFEB 4, '26

Monthlies

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The Hard Parts Have MovedMAY 1, '26

Tutorials

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Kill a bad product idea before you spend a week building itMAY 27, '26
Triage a GitHub issue backlog overnightMAY 20, '26
Turn a voice note into structured tasks in 30 secondsMAY 20, '26
Retrieve from a vector store with metadata filters and get the right chunkMAY 6, '26
Wire agents together with a message bus instead of function callsMAY 6, '26
Author role-specific system prompts that actually change behaviorAPR 29, '26
Run a roster of four agents in a single workflow without the wheels coming offAPR 29, '26
Build a research agent team where one agent finds, one verifies, one summarizesAPR 14, '26
Constrain agent tool access with per-task allowlistsAPR 14, '26
Force structured agent output with JSON schema validation and retryAPR 14, '26
Route customer queries to specialized agents based on intent classificationAPR 14, '26
Send context-aware Slack notifications that get noticed instead of mutedAPR 14, '26
Build an AI agent that triages your inbox without sending anything embarrassingAPR 12, '26
Build multi-step AI agent workflows with human approval at the right momentsAPR 12, '26
Generate images from your AI agent without burning a hundred dollars on bad outputsAPR 12, '26
Scope agent memory per user without leaking across sessionsAPR 12, '26
Stop your AI agent from running up a thousand-dollar bill overnightAPR 12, '26
The observability stack every production AI agent needsAPR 12, '26
Filter a hundred RSS feeds into a daily brief worth readingAPR 11, '26
Give your agent memory that survives a restartAPR 11, '26

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