I'll Build Your Whole "AI Product" for Only a Third of Your Total Raise
It's 2026 and big checks are still being cut to pre-product AI companies. Here's my standard reply to the recruiters.
It's 2026 and big checks are still being cut to pre-product AI companies. Here's my standard reply to the recruiters.
The brute-force framing misses the point. For well-defined closure tasks — plan refinement, prototype validation, implementation verification — the Ralph Loop doesn't stumble toward correctness. It converges.
Nine layers of guardrails that make AI coding agents safe, predictable, and actually useful — from CLAUDE.md to CI pipelines to specialized review agents.
The old question was 'can you code?' The new question is 'can you build and ship?' A framework for evaluating engineers who use Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI-assisted coding tools.
Test Driven Development is dead. Quality control can be largely automated now. That frees you to focus on what actually matters: building things people want.
I built a Claude Code skill that turns logo design into a conversation. Point it at your repo, pick a direction, and iterate until you're happy — no design tools needed.
Anthropic just raised $30B. A small fraction could fund the Claude Code showcase the ecosystem actually needs.

The real barriers to AI coding tool adoption aren't technical — they're management problems, employee problems, and human nature problems.

Claude's default mode is eager compliance—give it vague instructions and it'll happily make assumptions. These workflow skills force systematic iOS HIG verification, catching platform convention violations you'd never think to check.

Claude's default mode is eager compliance. These interview skills flip the script—using AskUserQuestion to force systematic questioning before any code gets written.

