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AI Tools 8 min read

AI Engineering: What Actually Happened

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The title 'I built a content system whose main job is to say no' beside a funnel of five dim topic cards feeding a gate labelled 'ready to write?', with a single lit card in brand red coming out the bottom
AI Tools 8 min

I built a content system whose main job is to say no

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A hand-painted vintage 'Pure Cane Sugar' packet label beside the title 'Careful used to be free', with a scatter of pixelated red squares circled and the note 'I didn't notice. For weeks.'
AI Design 14 min

Careful used to be free

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A dark infinite canvas of dim panels with one small panel glowing in One Eleven brand red, labelled the war room
Perspective 7 min

Our whole company runs on a hackathon side feature

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A micro-course card with a segmented progress bar, one segment highlighted, in One Eleven brand red on black.
AI Tools 5 min

Courselet: Idea to App in a Week

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A bright red north star with smaller marks orbiting it on a black field, next to the tagline One Day, One Problem: an internal AI hackathon
Perspective 5 min

The fun was the point. The value was a byproduct.

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Retro sunset-gradient game logo reading "Grand Theft Otto: Sunset City" on a dark background
AI Tools 4 min

GTA V in an Afternoon?

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3D illustration of a code editor showing perspective.md, surrounded by icons for code, terminal, and collaboration, in One Eleven brand red on black
Perspective 5 min

Code is the medium. Value is the point.

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Dark diagram of an eight-phase development flow from Ideation through Peer Review, Brand Definition, UI & UX, App Bootstrap, Iterative Agentic Development and Human UAT to Continuous Development, with loop-back arrows between phases
AI Tools 17 min

AI Engineering: Idea to Product

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Infographic titled "9 things to get right before your AI system is production-ready", covering model choice, token economics, data governance, guardrails, testing, redundancy, observability, boundaries and model swaps
Data Governance 5 min

Production Ready AI Playbook

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Flowchart titled "Spec writing best practices: an iterative and disciplined methodology" showing four phases from front-loading context through adversarial reviews to methodology as output
Business Analysis 7 min

What I Learned Using AI to Write a Production Feature Spec

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Cartoon strip of a pink car accumulating more and more junk bolted onto it in four stages, titled Vibe Coding
LLM 6 min

The AI "Disruptive Genius"

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