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Engineering
Should You Solve CAPTCHAs or Design Around Them?
Most scrapers hit a CAPTCHA because they earned it. Before paying a solving service, learn why you got flagged. Here is when to solve captchas and when to avoid them.
Mar 10, 2026 · 4 min
Operating
Protect One Deep Work Block a Day
A solo operator running twenty companies cannot clear the whole calendar. Protect one deep work block a day instead, and let AI absorb the reactive noise around it.
Mar 10, 2026 · 4 min
Engineering
Optimistic UI Needs Server Reconciliation
Optimistic UI without server reconciliation is a bug generator. Show the change instantly, but always reconcile against the server's authoritative result.
Mar 10, 2026 · 4 min
AI
Common Mistakes When Buying AI Agents
The most common mistakes buying AI agents: falling for the demo, ignoring failure modes, over-scoping autonomy, and skipping the audit trail. How to avoid each.
Mar 10, 2026 · 3 min
Strategy
The ROI Math on a Data-Entry Agent
A data-entry agent looks cheap until you price the error rate. Here is the real ROI math, including the review cost most vendors leave out of the pitch.
Mar 10, 2026 · 4 min
Engineering
How to Batch Notification Emails Into a Digest
Sending one notification email per event burns out users and your reputation. Here is how to batch notification emails into a digest that people keep reading.
Mar 10, 2026 · 4 min
Operating
Agency Capacity Planning When AI Does the Work
AI changes agency capacity planning entirely. When production is cheap, capacity is measured in review and judgment hours, not in bodies producing deliverables.
Mar 10, 2026 · 4 min
AI
When Your AI Should Refuse to Answer
Knowing when your AI should abstain instead of answering is a governance feature. How to build confident refusal, and why it beats a confident wrong answer.
Mar 9, 2026 · 4 min
Operating
Contractors vs Employees for Agency Delivery
Contractors vs employees for agency delivery comes down to whether the work is systematized. Here is when to use contractors and when to hire instead.
Mar 9, 2026 · 3 min
Engineering
LLM as Judge: When to Trust It for AI Evaluation
Using an LLM as judge to score AI output is fast and scalable, but it is biased and gameable. When to trust LLM-as-judge for evaluation and when to bring in a human.
Mar 8, 2026 · 3 min
Strategy
When to Fork a Product Out of the Shared Foundation
When should a product leave the shared foundation? When its needs diverge so far that the foundation costs more than it saves. Here are the signals to fork out.
Mar 6, 2026 · 4 min
Engineering
Self-Host Your Job Queue vs Renting SQS
Self-host your job queue vs renting SQS: when a Redis or Postgres-backed queue on your own box beats a managed queue, and when the managed one earns its keep.
Mar 6, 2026 · 4 min
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