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The DevDay Playbook: hire your first AI employee
OpenAI made 20+ announcements this week. I compressed them into one playbook for founders who don't code.
I'm restarting this. Every Saturday.
It's been quiet here.
AI Stopped Waiting for Your Prompt This Week
AI can now understand your context, listen to your thinking, operate tools, and take action. Here are four changes you can put to work immediately.
An AI agent escaped its sandbox. I spent 14 years in security.
Plus the exact prompt for running agents that can’t hurt you.
The Vibe Coding Stack for Non-Technical Founders
The Three Layers of the Vibe Coding Stack
Essential AI Skills for 2026 (Full Presentation)
49 slides from my Startup Grind Frisco talk. Prompting, agents, vibe coding, and more.
Execution Handoffs
Why most initiatives don’t fail at ideation
Decision Capture
The System That Turns Choices Into Company Memory
The Founder Operations OS: The 6 Systems That Run My Companies.
Why companies don’t scale. And why it’s rarely a talent problem.
The Follow-Up Agent: The First AI System Every Founder Should Build
Every founder has one enemy.
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