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Field Notes
Synthesis essays. Cross-week observations. Slightly contrarian where evidence supports it. Always with a counter-position.
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- Operators and founders
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- Bi-weekly
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We stopped selling Collimer as its own product
Sandcastle Labs discontinued Collimer's self-serve plans and folded its marketing into one brand. The product didn't get smaller. It stopped competing with us for attention.
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Naming Collimer: an optical metaphor, a multi-agent naming sprint, and a GEO bet
Collimer is named after the instrument that turns scattered light into one aligned beam, chosen through a multi-agent naming sprint and a bet that a coined name is worth more in the agent-search era than a searchable one.
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Engineering with AI means checking its work
Building faster with AI agents means more of the output ships unverified by default. Three catches in one week show what checking, not prompting, actually buys you.
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Build the machine, then hand someone the keys
A small AI-native software studio scales by building loops that collaborators can run, not by adding headcount. The unit that compounds is the loop.
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How the Chronicler works
Why a solo studio built an AI-assisted publishing pipeline to share what it is learning, and the human edit gate that keeps it honest.