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Working with AI, building with it, and thinking about where it goes.

A simple data panel: only 8 to 18 percent of small firms pay for any AI, median spend about $28 a month, and only about 8 percent hire a consultant for AI.
Essay

Everyone's selling AI consultancy. The data says nobody's buying.

19 July 2026
4 min read

A $1,000-an-hour AI consultancy playbook is doing the rounds. The demand data, and a friend who sells everything except this, disagree.

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Six AIs handed me the same lie, in unison. Below: unanimous reads as corroboration, but it was one claim repeated, so I check the source before I publish.
Build Log

I Almost Told You a Lie. Six AIs Handed It to Me, in Unison.

17 June 2026
7 min read

A field note from researching Graphify: the real privacy model, the honest token numbers, and why I check the source before I publish.

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A small wooden boat in tidal shallows at golden hour, with a stranded larger vessel in the distance
Build Log

Building David, Not a Smaller Goliath

11 May 2026
13 min read

How a trading agent reveals the game retail can actually win — by playing where the funds can't or won't go, and learning to love the play.

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An XML file full of PLACEHOLDER_X tags, fanned with eleven ghost copies. Caption: × 12 files. None ever filled in.
Build Log

BOS-AI had twelve XML files holding nothing

10 May 2026
4 min read

I checked the XML files BOS-AI used to store 'institutional memory' for thirty agents. Every tag was PLACEHOLDER_X. So I deleted all twelve.

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Half of agent-11 was scaffolding the platform now provides
Build Log

Half of agent-11 was scaffolding the platform now provides

9 May 2026
6 min read

I shipped v6 of agent-11 last month. The biggest single change was deletion. The deployed CLAUDE.md went from roughly 250 lines to under 80. The MCP prof...

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Build Log

Now the Real Data Starts

9 May 2026
9 min read

Seven months of building bought me a system that finally tells the truth about itself. The data those seven months produced is mostly unreadable. The clock just started, and not a moment too soon.

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The House Always Wins: Why Retail Crypto Trading Is About to Get a Lot Harder

3 May 2026
10 min read

Three forces are converging on retail crypto traders, and none of them favour the small player. The edge isn't intelligence anymore. It's owning the table.

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Essay

Contact Is the Test

18 April 2026
4 min read

Self-awareness that doesn't produce contact with other people has gone bad. Dostoevsky figured this out in 1864.

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Build Log

The Compute Class Divide

14 April 2026
5 min read

AI providers are chasing enterprise contracts. Compute is finite. The solopreneur gets whatever's left.

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When Your Automation Becomes the Job

7 April 2026
5 min read

When Your Automation Becomes the Job ReadTime: "7 min read" I used to brag about OpenClaw. I had agents running on a Mac Mini. Content. Social. Marketing. O...

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The System Changed Its Mind: What a Directional Flip Looks Like When Its Done Right

2 April 2026
7 min read

Last week SHORTs. This week LONGs. No override. The system detected the regime change and flipped with it.

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Build Log

The Trade That Changed Everything: How One Filter Turned Our AI Trading System Around

20 March 2026
5 min read

The biggest improvement to our AI trading system was a four-line if statement that checks whether BTC is far enough from its moving average.

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Build Log

From Chaos to Command: How I Rebuilt My Mission Control to Actually Work

20 March 2026
8 min read

I run a portfolio of AI-powered products as a solo founder. The problem? Until today, I had no real way to see what was happening across all of them.

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Essay

Truth Is the Currency of the Future

19 March 2026
6 min read

I'm betting my family's financial future on truth. Here's why I think you should too.

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Build Log

The One Variable That Matters: How Data Analysis Transformed Our Trading System

16 March 2026
6 min read

We analyzed 16 trades and found a binary outcome determined by one variable. Here's how we fixed it.

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Weathering the Storm: How Trader-7 Survived 8 Regime Flips in 72 Hours

13 March 2026
7 min read

Over 72 hours, Bitcoin crossed its 50-day moving average 8 times. Here's how my AI trading system survived the worst possible market conditions.

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Build Log

The Smartest Developers I Know Left Their Brains at the Door

8 March 2026
5 min read

Even seasoned developers leave their brains at the door when AI agents impress them. The better the tool, the less we scrutinize it. Here's the pattern, why it's dangerous, and what to do about it.

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Build Log

Claude Killed My Subscription. I Found Something 90% Cheaper.

26 February 2026
4 min read

"Computer says no." The moment I tried to push code and VS Code said no. Then my OpenClaw bots died.

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Build Log

No Code Changes. No Bug Fixes. Just the System... Trading.

24 February 2026
5 min read

My AI trading system ran for 24 hours unsupervised. +$91 profit, zero losses, Sharpe ratio hit 2.02. After 14 sprints in 25 days, nothing broke. That is the milestone.

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Build Log

If This Isn't a Month's Work, I'm Not Trying Hard Enough

24 February 2026
7 min read

Last year I believed we overestimate what we can do in a day. Now I think if I'm not compressing months into a Monday, I'm not trying hard enough. Here's everything I shipped in one day with two AI agents.

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