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building

5 essays on this topic.

Papers
  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.