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Nobody Tells You: The Real Work Starts After the AI Says 'Done'
I'm building my first iOS app without knowing Swift. Claude Code scaffolded the whole thing in an evening. Then I opened the Simulator, and the real work began.
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What Happens After You Migrate: 8 Days of Compounding Returns
I migrated my blog to Next.js and thought the hard part was over. Then the compounding started — 6 mega guides, a smarter AI assistant, native newsletter, bot protection, and SEO overhaul in 8 days.
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How I Rebuilt My Blog Backend in 4 Days with Claude Code
I migrated 485 WordPress posts to Next.js in 4 days using a plugin that taught Claude to think like a product manager—not just a code generator.
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I Added 5 Languages to DIALØGUE in 48 Hours
I built planning documents that taught Claude Code how to localize—not just translate—then watched it execute across 5 languages in parallel, turning literal phrases into native-sounding copy.
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I Rebuilt My Entire AI Podcast App in 14 Days. I'm Terrified.
I rebuilt my podcast app in 14 days—a project that originally took 6 months. The acceleration terrifies me, and it should terrify you too.
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I Completed My Biggest Site Redesign in Years. During Breakfast.
I rebuilt my entire website in 3 days using AI—not as a coding assistant, but as my actual developer. I made the decisions; Claude Code wrote 28,000 lines.
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AI Without Memory Is Just an Expensive Chatbot
I built 9 AI agents that forgot everything between conversations—wasting users 20-45 minutes weekly re-explaining their business. Here's how I made them share memory.
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Marketing Teams Work Together. Now STRATUM Does Too.
I shipped team collaboration features in alpha with <50 users because my customers were already working in teams—just through painful screenshots and copy-paste workarounds that cost 80+ hours per year.
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My Database Was "Correct." It Was Also 296x Too Slow.
I discovered my Postgres database had 89 foreign keys but zero indexes on them—turning millisecond queries into 843ms nightmares and nearly killing my alpha launch.
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Blank Screens Kill Trust. I Had 31 of Them.
I found 31 blank screens in my SaaS—all because I forgot multi-tenancy isn't just about data access, it's about URL context. Here's how Claude Code helped me fix them all in one night.
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I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2. On Day 67, I Rebuilt It
I thought adding org_id to every table meant bulletproof multi-tenancy. Then my security audit revealed agencies were writing to SME tables—not through a bug, but by design.
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I Knew What Agencies Needed—So I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2
After 20 years in agencies, I knew multi-tenant architecture couldn't wait—so on Day 2, with just one working AI agent, I tripled my dev complexity to avoid a future rewrite.