The craft behind the product
Twenty-five years of designing, building, and shipping software. Architecture decisions, infrastructure, hard trade-offs, and the unglamorous engineering that turns an idea into something running in production.
The Threshold Collapsed to Zero: Building in Public in the Age of AI Cloning
Arvid Kahl, one of the pioneers of the "build in public" movement in the software world, made a confession in recent months (April 2026) that fundamentally shook his own thesis. After years of advocating for sharing metrics, processes, and financial data transparently, Kahl stated that the "safe sharing threshold has collapsed to zero" due to the speed AI has reached. Now, every metric and architectural detail you share openly turns into a cloning blueprint that AI agents can replicate over a weekend.
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The Era of the "Previous Vibe Coder" Begins: The Invisibility of Clean Code and the Technical Debt Bill of AI
An analysis of the false speed illusion of AI coding, DRY violations, the devaluation of invisible quality using Akerlof's Market for Lemons, and the upcoming crisis of the 'Previous Vibe Coder'.
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Comprehension Debt: The Bill Comes Due Alone
I ship with AI coding agents daily. What breaks isn't the code — it's comprehension. And working solo, there's no one to absorb that debt but you.
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The End of Coding or a New Renaissance? The Invisible Crisis of AI
Have you felt that shift in the air lately when scrolling through LinkedIn or reading tech news? You know the ones—those flashy videos titled "I built a…
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How I Built a Modern Infrastructure Using Open Source Tools and the Power of Cloudflare
Behind the scenes of camiler.org: A modern, Dockerized infrastructure built on open source tools and Cloudflare, optimized to run on a single small VPS.
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From Rules to Decisions: The Real-Time Sales Intelligence Platform We Built at Vanity
How we transformed Vanity's manual lead routing into a real-time, automated decision support and sales force management engine handling 100K yearly leads.
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