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Early and late-stage hypergrowth.

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Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.

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The agentic passive voice.

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Judgment and creativity are all you need.

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Refactoring internal documentation in Notion

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Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings?

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Writing Visualizations with Remotion

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Curiosity is the first-step in problem solving.

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Stripe's Lighthouse Hiring pattern.

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Pressure Without a Plan.

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Learning from Every's Compound Engineering

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Sharing Claude transcripts.

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Moved newsletter from Mailchimp to Buttondown.

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Notes on Building an Internal Agent

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Building an internal agent: Iterative prompt and skill refinement

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Building an internal agent: Subagent support

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Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs LLM-driven workflows

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Building an internal agent: Logging and debugability

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Building an internal agent: Evals to validate workflows

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Building an internal agent: Context window compaction

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