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Field notes · SEO258 Pages Took Me Months by Hand. Now It's an Afternoon.
The script would have taken an afternoon. Nobody was available to write it. What it taught me about why big companies cannot automate, and what AI changed.
Sep 16, 2026 · 10 min read -
Column · Trade war, AI, CanadaThe Best Deal Washington Didn't Offer
Canada cannot put a tariff on the technology that runs its days. That empty shelf might be the best deal we get out of this trade war.
Sep 9, 2026 · 4 min read -
Field report · AI operations · Part 2What Happened When I Capped Claude's Context Window at 250K
One setting, 29,306 API calls before and after, and a bill that fell by half while the work stayed the same.
Sep 4, 2026 · 7 min read -
Field report · AI operationsSame Song, Four Different Bills
Four Claude runs, one songwriting task, and the biggest gap came from a single model measured against itself twice.
Aug 27, 2026 · 6 min read -
Playbook · Part three of threeRunning a Studio Session
Sometimes the enormous window is the point. How to spend that deliberately instead of leaking it.
Aug 19, 2026 · 6 min read -
Playbook · Part two of threeBuilding the Assembly Line
The default session shape in detail: folder layout, search commands, the prompts I paste, and two hooks that keep me honest.
Aug 12, 2026 · 6 min read -
Field report · AI operationsThe Rent You Pay Every Turn
I audited 3 months and 16 billion tokens of my own AI sessions. The bill was not where I thought.
Aug 5, 2026 · 10 min read -
Playbook · ToolingHow I Ship Thirteen Games Without Hand-Testing Any of Them
Shipping a lot alone is a tooling problem, and the tool that matters most is the one that checks your work while you sleep.
Jul 22, 2026 · 6 min read -
Field notes · ArchitectureZero dependencies on purpose
Why almost everything I ship is one self-contained file, and the sentence I write at build time that keeps that from turning into a mistake.
Jul 15, 2026 · 5 min read -
Playbook · ReliabilityThe Harness Beats the Prompt
You don't fix an unreliable AI by trusting it more. You fix it with three scripts that make its failures loud, caught, and impossible to ship.
Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min read