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.
Who is an AI builder?
Articles
- What is shared state for agents?
- What is AI-powered distribution?
- What is the agent graduation path?
- What is an agent context protocol?
- What is the coordination layer?
- What is system-first building?
- What is the agent org?
- What is AI building?
- What is an agent team?
- What is an AI agent?
- What is an AI-native product?
- What is prompt engineering?
- What is the builder's toolkit in 2026?
- Who is an AI builder?
Weeklies
Monthlies
Tutorials
- Kill a bad product idea before you spend a week building it
- Triage a GitHub issue backlog overnight
- Turn a voice note into structured tasks in 30 seconds
- Retrieve from a vector store with metadata filters and get the right chunk
- Wire agents together with a message bus instead of function calls
- Author role-specific system prompts that actually change behavior
- Run a roster of four agents in a single workflow without the wheels coming off
- Build a research agent team where one agent finds, one verifies, one summarizes
- Constrain agent tool access with per-task allowlists
- Force structured agent output with JSON schema validation and retry
- Route customer queries to specialized agents based on intent classification
- Send context-aware Slack notifications that get noticed instead of muted
- Build an AI agent that triages your inbox without sending anything embarrassing
- Build multi-step AI agent workflows with human approval at the right moments
- Generate images from your AI agent without burning a hundred dollars on bad outputs
- Scope agent memory per user without leaking across sessions
- Stop your AI agent from running up a thousand-dollar bill overnight
- The observability stack every production AI agent needs
- Filter a hundred RSS feeds into a daily brief worth reading
- Give your agent memory that survives a restart