Why My AI Agent Has a Quality Philosophy
My Claude Code agent inherited every sloppy human habit at machine speed. I built 3 philosophies, 150+ quality gates, and 95 hooks. Here's what worked.
AI & TechnologyWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Two MCP Servers Made Claude Code an iOS Build System
XcodeBuildMCP and Apple's Xcode MCP give Claude Code structured access to iOS builds, tests, and debugging. Setup, real-world results, and honest lessons.
AI DevelopmentClaude Code Hooks: Why Each of My 95 Hooks Exists
I built 95 hooks for Claude Code. Each one exists because something went wrong. Here are the origin stories and the architecture that emerged.
AI DevelopmentThe 15x Cost of a Bad Database Decision: Lessons in Decision Timing
I measured the cost of a database decision across three systems. Migration cost grew 15x in three years. A framework for when to decide fast vs slow.
Systems & ProductivityAI Theater: Why 90% of Companies 'Use AI' But Only 23% Create Value
McKinsey found 90% of companies claim AI adoption but only 23% scale beyond pilots. I've witnessed three flavors of AI theater and practiced one myself.
AI & TechnologyThe Pathless Path: How I Left a 12-Year VP Role to Build 12 Projects
I left VP of Product Design at ZipRecruiter after 12 years to build independently. No plan, no destination, just curiosity and a financial runway.
Career & GrowthMental Compound Interest: How Cross-Domain Knowledge Built My Best Tools
Design + engineering + AI produced tools none of those skills alone could build. An interactive calculator and the cross-domain advantage in practice.
Systems & ProductivityBuilding Design Teams That Ship: What 12 Years at ZipRecruiter Taught Me
After 12 years leading product design at ZipRecruiter, I learned which team structures ship and which polish endlessly. The patterns surprised me.
Design & UXThe Ralph Loop: How I Run Autonomous AI Agents Overnight
I built an autonomous agent system with stop hooks, spawn budgets, and filesystem memory. Here are the failures and what actually ships code.
AI & TechnologyThe Startup Validation Stack: What 12 Projects Taught Me About Evidence
I validated 12 projects in 9 months. Some followed the framework. Some skipped steps. The difference in outcomes taught me which evidence actually matters.
Career & GrowthPRD-Driven Development: How I Use 30+ PRDs to Ship with AI Agents
I've written 30+ PRDs for AI agent tasks. Here's where PRD-driven development works, where it fails, and how my template evolved over 6 months.
AI DevelopmentCompounding Engineering: How My Codebase Accelerates Instead of Decaying
Most codebases slow down as they grow. Mine accelerates. 95 hooks, 44 skills, and 14 configs make each feature cheaper than the last.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.