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Rough notes, published anyway.

Build-log entries and essays in progress — what I’m making, what broke, and what I think it means.

11 June 2026

Hardening a public LLM endpoint before a conference

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Twelve days before Product at Heart, a pass over everything that could go wrong with a public, paid chat endpoint: headers, prompt injection, bots, and a way to watch the budget burn.

01

Intentional systems, not chaos: why I build for my own life

DRAFTING
02

The PM as builder, not ticket-writer

DRAFTING
03

What gets cheaper when prototypes get cheap

PLANNED
04

Notes from building with an AI in the loop

PLANNED