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Mar 4

I Vibe-Coded an Entire App. Nobody Bought It. Here’s What I Built Next.

How stopping vibe coding made me a faster builder — and why I turned a decade of engineering discipline into one file.

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Feb 23

Things I Keep Getting Wrong at Work

Lessons from 12 years of dev syncs, failed process rollouts, and overthinking software architecture

Incomplete software architecture diagram on laptop screen during dev sync meeting

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Feb 15

Trust Is Boring

and other things I’m learning about leadership

Trust Is Boring

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Jun 29

. Bound by Design

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Jun 10

AI Made Me Faster. It Also Made My Work Harder to Review.

When AI makes planning cheap, shared context becomes the expensive part.

AI Made Me Faster. It Also Made My Work Harder to Review.

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Apr 2

Anthropic open-sourced Claude Code. I extracted the pet system.

Everyone’s reverse-engineering the AI. Nobody stopped to pet the duck.

Anthropic open-sourced Claude Code. I extracted the pet system.

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Mar 5

High Abstraction Minds

The Mind That Sees Too Much

High Abstraction Minds

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Feb 11

Libido is not “sexual energy”

It is dopaminergic drive + vascular readiness + motivational salience

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Jan 26

When something isn’t landing, get specific — not defensive

Two lessons from last week: one from shipping through ambiguity at work, one from getting called “AI slop” online.

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Jan 5

The Private Work Log I Wish I’d Started Years Ago

A simple Friday habit that gave me six months of clarity.

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Romesh N.

Romesh is a backend engineer building distributed systems at a crypto exchange. He writes about work, systems, and staying sane in tech

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