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Recent writing
- NewGive Business Users a Computer, Not a Platform – Airtable's $1.285B sale marks the end of the low-code abstraction. Give business users an isolated micro VM — a real Linux box — instead of a platform.
- Using Claude Code to run any Ops (in this case GTM Engineering) – How to build a personal AI operating system for GTM engineering using Claude Code, GitHub Actions, and structured context files.
- Why Unix is Perfect for LLMs – Unix's text-based, stateless, composable design makes it the ideal interface for AI agents. Every software company will add CLI support.
- File Formats in the LLM Era – Why human-readable formats like Markdown and CSV will replace machine-optimized formats like DOCX and PDF in the age of LLMs.
- The Terminal is Becoming Conversational – AI coding assistants like Claude Code are turning the terminal into a conversational interface. Developer tools always become everyone's tools.
- Mimesis and Signaling – How products spread through imitation and social proof. Excalidraw's viral moment from Karpathy's deep learning video shows the power of mimesis.