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SigNews: Mapping global news narratives with AI

Real-time intelligence for a noisy world

SigNews: Mapping global news narratives with AI

Your next AI skill is worldbuilding

Build the world around the model

Your next AI skill is worldbuilding

Using AI Series

The four levels of AI mastery

From assistant to programmable intelligence

The four levels of AI mastery

Directing AI agents: From writing code to orchestrating it

From coding to orchestrating agents

Directing AI agents: From writing code to orchestrating it

Autonomous AI agents: When to delegate entire workflows

Delegating workflows to AI

Autonomous AI agents: When to delegate entire workflows

When AI becomes the product: Designing AI-native systems

Blending code with AI reasoning

When AI becomes the product: Designing AI-native systems

Cursor IDE in practice: Agent mode and intent-driven coding

AI-assisted coding with Cursor IDE

Cursor IDE in practice: Agent mode and intent-driven coding

Abundant Intelligence Series

Your moat is melting: What AI does to knowledge work

What makes you valuable when AI can execute?

Your moat is melting: What AI does to knowledge work

How to actually use AI

Direct AI like an on-demand team

How to actually use AI

The collapse of the middle: Where value goes when AI executes

Value moves to judgment and humanity

The collapse of the middle: Where value goes when AI executes

What remains when machines handle everything?

Work as expression, not survival

What remains when machines handle everything?

Application Design Series

Maintainable software: Building applications that last

Foundations of maintainable software

Maintainable software: Building applications that last

The dependency rule: Structuring code for independence

Structuring code for independence

The dependency rule: Structuring code for independence

Hexagonal architecture: Separating business from technology

Isolating business from infrastructure

Hexagonal architecture: Separating business from technology

Clean architecture in practice: Entities, use cases, and layers

Layered architecture for lasting code

Clean architecture in practice: Entities, use cases, and layers

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What if we got online shopping wrong?

Reimagining e-commerce as open protocol

What if we got online shopping wrong?

Building a web server with TypeScript and Koa

A lightweight TypeScript web server

Building a web server with TypeScript and Koa

Building an expert system in Python (backward chaining)

Linked to expert-system experiment

Building an inference engine in Python

Building an expert system in Python (backward chaining)

X86-64 assembly basics: Writing your first functions

Linked to libft-asm experiment

First steps into x86-64 assembly

X86-64 assembly basics: Writing your first functions

Building a program that writes itself (a quine)

Linked to dr-quine experiment

Code that prints its own source

Building a program that writes itself (a quine)

Building nm and otool: Parsing Mach-O binaries in C

Linked to nm-otool experiment

Reverse engineering macOS binaries in C

Building nm and otool: Parsing Mach-O binaries in C

SHA-256 and MD5 in C: Implementing hash functions from scratch

Linked to md5-sha256 experiment

Implementing cryptographic hash functions in C

SHA-256 and MD5 in C: Implementing hash functions from scratch

Writing your own malloc in C: A memory allocator from scratch

Linked to malloc experiment

Building malloc from scratch to understand memory

Writing your own malloc in C: A memory allocator from scratch