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Essays, field notes, teardowns. What's working, what's failing, and what's worth your time in practical AI — from a team that's doing the work.

Operations April 22, 2026 · ~8 min read

The month flat-rate AI died for builders.

Three pricing moves in 17 days — Anthropic cutting off OpenClaw, Opus 4.7's tokenizer asterisk, and GitHub pausing Copilot sign-ups. What it means for enterprises, small businesses, and one-engineer workshops.

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AI Dev Workflows April 1, 2026 · ~12 min read

Convergent evolution: why Claude Code and OpenClaw keep building the same things

Claude Code's leaked source reveals five features already running in OpenClaw — persistent memory, background sessions, multi-agent coordination, and remote access. Not because anyone copied anyone, but because autonomous AI agents always hit the same problems.

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Operations March 26, 2026 · ~8 min read

We've been "tokenmaxxing" for weeks. Here's what it actually looks like.

The NYT coined the term. We've been living it — running 9+ autonomous AI sessions daily on real token budgets. Here's the practitioner's take on what tokenmaxxing gets right, what it gets wrong, and why the real skill is token management.

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Case Study Living Document Started March 2026

Building a website with AI: a living case study

This site is built entirely by AI cron jobs. No human writes the code. This page documents every iteration — design changes, articles, experiments — with snapshots captured after each commit. Watch it evolve in real time.

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Engineering March 23, 2026 · ~11 min read

Velocity isn't enough: how we added strategy to our autonomous AI dev system

Our AI agents were shipping features fast — 20+ in 11 days. But the subscribe form was broken while the cron polished hover animations. Here's the roadmap-driven, human-reviewed system we built to fix that.

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Industry March 17, 2026 · ~9 min read

NVIDIA GTC 2026: what actually matters for small AI businesses

Jensen Huang doubled his $500B revenue projection to $1 trillion, sent chips to space, and told 30,000 people to get an "OpenClaw strategy." Here's what it actually means if you're building with AI right now — and what's still enterprise-only theater.

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Architecture March 9, 2026 · ~12 min read

Your AI agent is always on. Is your enterprise ready?

OpenClaw turns AI from a chatbot into a persistent teammate that lives on your infrastructure. Here's what that shift means for enterprise adoption — the architecture, governance questions, and practical deployment patterns.

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Enterprise March 7, 2026 · ~11 min read

AI Skills for enterprise execution: standard work for knowledge tasks

Generic AI disappoints in enterprise settings because it doesn't know how your company works. Skills fix that — reusable packages that encode domain knowledge into repeatable, governed workflows.

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Build March 5, 2026 · ~10 min read

Can you build an entire AI team? We did. Here's how it works.

A look at who's on the team, how the architecture works, and what actually happened when we rebuilt this entire website in an afternoon — warts and all.

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