Graph Engineering for AI Agents: An Interactive Primer
August 20, 2026
A runnable primer on the primitives behind agent orchestration — and the honest economics of when a graph is worth building at all.
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Practical writing on AI, automation, and building software that actually ships.
The webhook that lied about a payment
July 2, 2026
A forged Stripe webhook got a security researcher a free subscription. How I verify every Plaid webhook in production: signature, raw body, five-minute window.
Read moreWhat Goldratt knew about the AI bottleneck
June 13, 2026
A 1984 manufacturing theory predicted exactly what AI is doing to software, and where it stops being useful.
Read moreWhere I keep AI out of the loop
June 7, 2026
The four-step loop I run when AI builds the product, and the two steps where I deliberately keep it out.
Read moreWhat is an AI harness?
June 6, 2026
A plain-English breakdown of the term that's everywhere right now, what's actually inside one, and what to listen for when someone uses it.
Read moreWhy I built my own finance dashboard instead of opening a Monarch account
May 30, 2026
Personal-finance apps let you rename categories. They don't let you change the questions the dashboard answers. That's why I built my own.
Read moreWhy I stopped paying Splitwise $36/year and built 'Float' in a day
May 25, 2026
Every SaaS subscription is a tax on capability you don't have yet. AI is making that capability cheap enough that a lot of $36/year tools aren't worth paying for anymore.
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