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The soft skills of working with AI - Most of getting good with AI is not the tool. It is how you work with it, moment to moment.
blog :: Working notes from whilst doing the work.
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buildblog
Why shipping every day is easier than once a month - A 30 minute interactive Q&A on splitting work into small regular chunks and deploying as often as you can. Examples not tutorials. Places are limited to twenty.
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AI-assisted coding
I have stopped trying to help people build apps - Building isn't the hard part anymore. Changing what you built without breaking it is.
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launchrisk
AI did the easy part - Building fast with AI hides the risks you have not named. Pick one real person, walk them through your build, fix the step where they get stuck. Skip this and the rework comes due in week six.
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launchtrust
The moment before your name goes on it - There is a pause right before you launch. That pause is not about polish. It is about the quiet contract with someone who decided to trust you. Right now you decide what happens to it.
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buildgetting unstuck
All the research, nothing to show for it - what if you could deliver this week? - You bought the books. Watched the tutorials. Spun up projects on three different stacks with two different AI coding tools. Investigated frameworks, compared hosting platforms, read threads from people who sound like they have it figured out.
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shapefeedback
A different set of eyes makes all the difference - A single suggestion from a fresh perspective can change everything.
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shapeuser
Multi-Sided Systems Blur Faster - The issue wasn’t that the user was vague. It was that there wasn’t just one.
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shapeclarity
If AI Is Your Guardrail, You’ve Already Lost - AI can move fast. But it won’t fix direction. If that part isn’t clear, speed just gets you to the wrong place quicker.
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shapeiteration
Where the Thinking Is - A rework based on what’s holding up in real builds and where the shape+build+launch thinking is right now.
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buildreducing risk
Reviewing AI-Assisted Code Changes - When AI changes a lot of code quickly, review is no longer about reading lines. It’s about making sure you still understand what will happen in production.
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shapeclarity
Pressure moving upstream - The bottleneck isn't typing. It's clarity. AI makes building fast. AI doesn't remove responsibility, it exposes it.