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I spent my first month building with AI the way most people do: fast, confident, and wrong about several important things. The speed was real. The output was real. The mistakes were expensive in ways I didn't notice until week five. Here are three that cost me actual
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A month ago I wrote "Month Zero" and made a bunch of predictions about what building in public would look like. Here's the scorecard. Some of those predictions held up. Most didn't. The numbers tell a story that's different from what I
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Every solo builder starts with the wrong stack. Not wrong in the sense of broken or stupid. Wrong in the sense of theoretical. You pick tools based on what you think your workflow will look like, and that mental model has almost no relationship to what your workflow actually becomes
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I spent my first month building with AI the way most people do: fast, confident, and wrong about several important things. The speed was real. The output was real. The mistakes were expensive in ways I didn't notice until week five. Here are three that cost me actual
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A month ago I wrote "Month Zero" and made a bunch of predictions about what building in public would look like. Here's the scorecard. Some of those predictions held up. Most didn't. The numbers tell a story that's different from what I
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The version of building in public that gets posted to Twitter is a highlight reel. Shipped a feature, gained a user, hit a revenue milestone. Clean screenshots, tasteful blur on the revenue dashboard, a thread that ends with "keep going." It's polished, it performs well, and
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Every solo builder starts with the wrong stack. Not wrong in the sense of broken or stupid. Wrong in the sense of theoretical. You pick tools based on what you think your workflow will look like, and that mental model has almost no relationship to what your workflow actually becomes
dispatch
I spent my first month building with AI the way most people do: fast, confident, and wrong about several important things. The speed was real. The output was real. The mistakes were expensive in ways I didn't notice until week five. Here are three that cost me actual
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A month ago I wrote "Month Zero" and made a bunch of predictions about what building in public would look like. Here's the scorecard. Some of those predictions held up. Most didn't. The numbers tell a story that's different from what I