I built two AI companies on Paperclip recently. This is the story of the bigger one, and what I think I got backwards.
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Notes from inside AI projects. The ones that shipped, the ones that quietly didn't, and the calls leadership has to make in between.
I built two AI companies on Paperclip recently. This is the story of the bigger one, and what I think I got backwards.
Read →A couple years ago, backend engineers had a recurring conversation. It went something like this: "We're so tightly coupled to this database that we can't swap it out without rewriting everything. Eve…
Read →I didn't hire eleven AI employees on day one. That's not how it happens.
Read →I had a harness that was supposed to build me an app.
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I hired a CEO via Paperclip. Not a person. An agent. Paperclip is built for exactly this, a CEO that delegates, follows up, tracks progress. And early on, it worked. Then I sprawled. I gave it a comp…
Read →Loyalty to a tool is a liability. Loyalty to the craft is the asset. The skills that travel with you between models.
Read →A debugging story about sycophancy, what actually fixed it, and the system-prompt checklist for anyone running agents.
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