Surviving Technical Due Diligence as an AI Founder
What the investor's technical reviewer opens first, the AI-specific flags that re-price rounds in 2026, and the gaps you should deliberately leave alone.
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Amazon Let the AI Drive. It Hit a Tree.
Amazon mandated AI coding, let it touch infrastructure unwatched, and lost millions of orders. The fix was more humans per deploy.
Build an LLM Wiki Your Coding Agent Actually Reads
A markdown knowledge base your AI agent reads and maintains: the three-layer architecture, the ingest/query/lint loop, and the rules that stop it rotting.
Your CLAUDE.md Is the Onboarding Doc You Never Wrote
A CLAUDE.md is executable tribal knowledge: the onboarding doc you never wrote for humans, finally read by something that acts on it.
AI Made Tokens Cheap. It's Making Hardware Costly.
Apple raised prices on Mac, iPad, and HomePod, blaming an AI-driven memory shortage. The cost of intelligence is falling; the hardware to run it isn't.
The Perfect Hire Is Killing Your Team
The whiteboard coding interview rewards memorization and pedigree, the weakest predictors of real performance. Hire for trajectory instead.
The AI Coding Agent Bugs I Catch Every Week
Eight failure patterns I see running AI coding agents daily: the confident wrong answers, the lost context, and the bugs they reliably ship.
15 Elixir Libraries I Reach For in 2026
The Hex packages I install on day one of a new Elixir project in 2026, what each one earns its place doing, and the ones I dropped along the way.
Build an AI Agent Loop in 50 Lines of Elixir
Every AI agent framework runs the same loop: observe, decide, act, repeat. Here it is in 50 lines of Elixir with no framework, just a GenServer.
RAG in Phoenix: Hand-Rolled pgvector or Arcana?
The Postgres you already run does RAG fine without a vector database. The hand-rolled pgvector path in Phoenix, and when Arcana earns its place.
We're About to Stop Making Senior Engineers
The path to senior ran through the grunt work AI now does in one prompt. The knowing-vs-doing gap hits juniors first, and here's how to grow architects anyway.
Nadella Is Right About AI and the Firm. Mostly.
Satya Nadella's 'token capital' framing is right that AI amplifies human judgment, but it's enterprise advice that skips the small teams who feel it first.