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Opinionated AI · Issue 04
Jev: most agent steps do not need an LLM
TypeSafe gave up text generation to make AI decisions cheap and fast enough to run inside ordinary software.
Opinionated AI · Issue 03
Context windows are RAM, not memory
Long-running agents will not become reliable by fitting more tokens into one prompt. They need durable state, selective retrieval, provenance, and a way to recover from bad memory.
Autonomous Agents Need Constitutions, Not Bigger Contexts
Longer-running agents do not become reliable through more context or more retries. They need evidence, protected rules, durable memory, and clear limits on their authority.
Vibe Coding Made Computer Science More Important
AI removed the syntax tax from software development. It did not remove the need to understand state, logic, failure, and verification — it made that knowledge the difference between a demo and a product.
Founder Mental Models · Part 02
KISS or Die: Why Senior Engineers Fail at Startups
Senior engineers kill startups by doing exactly what made them senior. $100K in free cloud credits, enterprise experience, "proper" architecture — we had it all. We still failed. Not because we built it wrong. We built it well. That was the problem. Here are the mental models that could have saved us.