#Method
#Growth
#Architecture

Publish a page and its social share card is already made. Branded with the site's logo, colours and fonts, drawn from the page's own data rather than ...

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Aug 5, 2026
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#Product
#Architecture
#AI & Agents
#Keystone

A normal company assembles a team and thirty-odd SaaS subscriptions to run a platform like this. This one is one person, one integrated system, built ...

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Aug 3, 2026
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#Method
#CI/CD
#AI & Agents

A deploy finishes and the platform files a changelog entry for it. Brain reads the commit the last entry ended on, takes the range up to the one just ...

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Jul 31, 2026
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#Method
#APIs & MCP
#AI & Agents

A company with an API has two documents to keep. The reference is mechanical. The SDK docs are the product, and the one companies most often neglect. ...

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Jul 21, 2026
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#Method
#AI & Agents
#Architecture

An agentic pipeline builds a large structured object through a tree of nested sub-agents. When the auditor flags one bad property, regenerating the wh...

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Jun 19, 2026
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#War story
#Architecture
#AI & Agents

Some of the work this platform does takes ten to fifteen minutes, a model building a page across many steps. Hot reload killed every one of those jobs...

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Jun 7, 2026
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#Method
#AI & Agents
#Architecture

A customer describes their business and gets an editable website back, and thirty-eight generative steps run between the request and the response. No ...

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Jun 4, 2026
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#War story
#Architecture
#Testing

For the first few months the backend was written in two languages, Python for the file processor, AI service, error tracker, and MCP server, and TypeS...

Jesse James Richard

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Jun 1, 2026
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#War story
#AI & Agents
#Architecture
#Keystone

One day in May I deleted the rule layer from the part of the platform that builds websites, and the pages it produced afterward were better. A determi...

Jesse James Richard

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May 29, 2026
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#Product
#AI & Agents

A chat on your homepage could answer every visitor who turns up with a question, in your voice, at any hour. Most companies do not put one there, and ...

Jesse James Richard

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May 27, 2026
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