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Adversarial Dogfooding Loop

Force all your work through your own product even when it's the wrong tool, so it becomes the right tool

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Build-and-Bake: Ship the Same Feature Until the Model Catches Up

Prototype ambitious features now, let them sit, and re-release the same shape each time models leap

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Build for the Future Model

Design product ideas for the model capability that is coming, not the one you have today

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Core-Behavior Synthetic Training

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Decompose-and-Ensemble

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Detune Precision by Time Horizon

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Eval-Driven Product Development

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Eval-First AI Product Development

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Label the Process Stage, Not the Polish

A production-looking prototype no longer means it's production-ready — say the stage out loud

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Match the Medium to the Point

When implementation is cheap, the skill is choosing document vs prototype for the point you're making

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Model Maximalism

Build at the edge of what models can barely do — the next model will make it sing.

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Poor Man's Fine-Tuning (Few-Shot + Role Priming)

Steer a model with in-prompt examples and a role identity instead of a full fine-tune.

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Prompting-as-Prototyping

Validate a product idea by prompting a model in a local browser before building anything

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Reason About It Like a Human

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Ship-Fast Operating Model

Lightweight bottoms-up planning, PM-light teams, and iterative deployment in a fast-moving domain.

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Vertical AI Opportunity Finder

Build where the winning data is locked behind a company or industry's walls — foundation models won't go there.

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Zone Defense for Product Work

Spread taste-makers out to cover the whole field instead of clustering on the same problem

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