Building My Own Tools
Last week I wrote about being messy, not sloppy. About stopping to reorganize before pushing forward. About the boring, unsexy work of building systems. This week I built…
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THE JOURNEY.
REAL SIGNAL.
Building AI systems, documenting the process, and sharing what actually works.
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BuiltWTF is a field notebook. These are the four lanes that connect the experiments, the systems work, and the lessons that still hold up.
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Agent tooling in the real world
Agents, human harnesses, token lessons, and the operating discipline behind useful AI.
02Forward-deployed engineering for SMBs
Practical systems work that lives close to the business, the people, and the actual problem.
03Business systems before automation
Clean workflows, accountable humans, usable data, then the right tools wired together.
0420 years of web and WordPress lessons
Architecture, judgment, platforms, and the durable parts of building for the web.
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Read Article ->: Building My Own Tools
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Messy, Not Sloppy
Read Article ->: Messy, Not SloppyNobody has this figured out. I certainly don’t. But I think I’m closer than most, and what I’ve learned so far is worth sharing , not because I…
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Stop Using AI Like a Dictionary
Read Article ->: Stop Using AI Like a DictionaryMicrosoft’s AI leadership just said most white-collar work has a 12 to 18 month expiration date. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput broke this down on episode 198 of…
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The Rocket-Powered Escalade: When AI Speed Meets Human Limits
Read Article ->: The Rocket-Powered Escalade: When AI Speed Meets Human LimitsTwo months ago, this wouldn’t have been possible. Website audits. Implementation roadmaps. Site restructuring plans. Developer task lists with exact fixes. The kind of work that used to…
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The Power Forward Engineer: Inspired to be the Dennis Rodman of Agentic AI
Read Article ->: The Power Forward Engineer: Inspired to be the Dennis Rodman of Agentic AII went for a six-mile run this afternoon, and somewhere around mile three, it hit me. I’m a 1990s NBA power forward. Stay with me here. The Dirty…
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The Roadblock Reflection
Read Article ->: The Roadblock ReflectionThe first week was perfect. I built a team of AI agents. Chief of Staff, Architect, Content Capo. Communication running through Telegram. Everything humming. Things getting done that…
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The Crew Gets Real
Read Article ->: The Crew Gets RealTwo days ago I added a second agent. Yesterday I optimized token costs and workflow. Today the crew became something different: an actual team. Not agents running in…
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Why I Hate Excuses
Read Article ->: Why I Hate Excuses530 pounds. Drinking and smoking for nearly 20 years. I showed up to work. I did my job. I held all my responsibilities. I’m just a massive human…
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I Burned Too Many Tokens Today (Here\047s What I Learned)
Read Article ->: I Burned Too Many Tokens Today (Here\047s What I Learned)Day 1 went well. Day 1.5 is when the bill comes. Nobody skips it – they just don’t write about it. Here’s what token burn taught me about…
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Adding Agent #2: Why One AI Wasn’t Enough
Read Article ->: Adding Agent #2: Why One AI Wasn’t EnoughI spun up a second AI agent. Here is what I learned about building a multi-agent setup and why the same principles that apply to managing a real…
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