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Thoughts on AI, building products, and the future of work.

Monthly Update: Recent Technical Setup

A callback to my January 30 setup post — OpenClaw dropped, Happy Coder, nine terminals from my phone, and the agent ecosystem.

Token Is Class

When your token quota drops, you feel what class really means.

The Bottleneck Moved

When answers become cheap, the hard part is knowing what to ask.

260 Sources In, Here's What I Learned

Scaling a personal intelligence system from 100 to 260 sources, and why it already beats most "deep research" tools.

My Personal Palantir

Most people monitor 5 sources. I built a system that monitors 100+ and tells me what everyone else is missing.

PaySentry: The Missing Control Plane for Agent Payments

PaySentry is the missing middleware between AI agent frameworks and payment protocols — observe spending, enforce policies, resolve disputes, and test safely across x402, ACP, AP2, and Visa TAP

The Agent Payment Landscape: When AI Starts Spending, Who Controls the Wallet?

The emerging agent payment landscape — protocols, pain points, and where the real opportunities are

Training My AI Assistant: A Claude Code Deep Dive

How I transformed Claude Code into a 24/7 personal assistant