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Building in public

Short notes on what I'm building, what worked, and what didn't.

23 September 2026

What business coaching communities are quietly building, and where it breaks

Business coaching communities keep bolting AI assistants onto Slack. It works, but it hits three limits fast, so I built a standalone version to see what changes.

22 September 2026

I Tried to Replace Claude With a Local AI Coding Agent. Here's Exactly Where It Broke.

A full day testing whether a local model running on consumer hardware can execute Claude-authored coding plans and cut token costs. It can, for one narrow kind of task. Here's the hardware math, the two real bugs I hit, and the actual capability ceiling.

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