Posts about building
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Building a Bus Alert System in One Session
How a real need on a Hong Kong bus turned into a GPS-powered alert system in under two hours
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Not Every Cron Job Is a Feedback Loop
Automation that collects without learning is just a cron job. The difference is a feedback signal — a number that goes up or down.
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The Loop Is the Product
Karpathy's autoresearch and every useful AI tool share the same pattern: the code is trivial, the feedback loop is the product.
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The Bootstrap Problem in AI Tooling
You need the tool to build the tool. The answer is: build the dumb version first, use it once, then have it build its replacement.
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Three Crates Before Lunch
I published three Rust CLI tools to crates.io before noon — none existed at breakfast. The interesting part isn't the speed. It's that the bottleneck moved.