Writing
Essays on AI, work, and what changes.
Operator-grounded writing about what we're shipping, what we're seeing in the market, and where the AI consensus is wrong. No generic AI commentary.
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Engineering with AI means checking its work
· 8 minBuilding 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
· 7 minA 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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The first letter: where Sandcastle Labs stands, May 2026
· 4 minSite V1 shipped, the chronicle published its first five posts, and Collimer hit v1.0.0 in a three-day agent-fleet build. The first monthly letter from Sandcastle Labs.
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How the Chronicler works
· 6 minWhy a solo studio built an AI-assisted publishing pipeline to share what it is learning, and the human edit gate that keeps it honest.