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Pick Your Epoch

Product

Everyone measures AI progress differently. The framework you pick determines the mistake you make.

12 min read

The Remaking of the Product Manager Role

Product

Chapter 5: The PM role will become more important, not less. But not the version most companies are running.

8 min read

The Remaking of the Software Engineering Role

Developer

Chapter 9: The software engineer was a producer. The producer is now AI. The role is being remade.

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Going from Systems of Record to Systems of Intelligence

Infrastructure

Your database knows everything. Your product knows nothing.

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The 1 Burrito Rule

Developer

Chapter 8: Bezos gave us the 2 Pizza Rule. He didn't anticipate the swarm.

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Vibe Coding: Claude Code Edition

Developer

Chapter 7: The Product Story Behind a Hit Product

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The Product Ecosystem: #2 The Brain

Product

Chapter 4-1: The Strategic Enablers.

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The Unit Economics of Vibe Coding

Developer

Chapter 6: The shift from headcount to high-leverage cognitive subscriptions.

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From Vibe to Verifiable: The Exhaustion You Face

Developer

Chapter 5: Vibe Build - It’s 11:30 PM. You’ve closed your laptop, but your brain is still vibrating.

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From Vibe to Verifiable: A Practical Example

Developer

Chapter 4: Vibe Build - Steering and verification solving a business case

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The Product Ecosystem: #1 The Body

Product

Chapter 4: Moving beyond the feature factory.

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Product Management Toolkit

Product

Chapter 3: A compact toolkit template to organize product work across strategy, delivery, and growth.

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Boiler plate .agentrules file

Infrastructure

What sane defaults for steerability should have.

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From Vibe to Verifiable: The Journey from Instructions to Intent

Developer

Chapter 3: To make vibe coding scale, we need to change what we give these systems and when we intervene.

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Organizing Your API Codebase is Infrastructure

Infrastructure

A pragmatic guide to structuring your API codebase using Screaming Architecture and Single Responsibility Principle.

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Value a Product Team Delivers

Product

Chapter 2: What does a product manager do? has many answers, and most of them miss the point.

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From Vibe to Verifiable: Why Vibe Coding Breaks in the Real World

Developer

Chapter 2: When vibe coding breaks down, it doesn’t fail in one way.

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What Does a Product Manager Do?

Product

Chapter 1: What does a product manager do? has many answers, and most of them miss the point.

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From Vibe to Verifiable: Building a Coding Agent You Can Trust

Developer

Chapter 1: Engineers can now converse with tools. But that's not enough!