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Field notes from building AI systems.

Practical essays on agents, automation, product surfaces, and the operating work behind production AI.

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AI Agents / 8 min

I Built Orbit AI Because Agents Need Customer Memory

Orbit AI is the customer-memory layer I wanted after building agent products: contacts, companies, deals, notes, and activity history agents can trust.

AI Agents / 8 min

My Security Stack for Open Source AI Projects

After making Orbit AI public, I rebuilt my security baseline around GitHub protections, dependency risk, CI gates, and visible maintainer decisions.

AI Agents / 6 min

I Built Sharon Chat Because My AI Work Needed a Home

Sharon Chat is my owned AI workspace for coding, research, and fast idea exploration, built on Vercel Chatbot with Kimi K2.5 as the default model.

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Essays, build logs, and operating notes.

A compact archive for the writing that proves how the systems were designed, shipped, evaluated, and improved.

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I Built Orbit AI Because Agents Need Customer Memory

Orbit AI is the customer-memory layer I wanted after building agent products: contacts, companies, deals, notes, and activity history agents can trust.

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I Built Orbit AI Because Agents Need Customer Memory

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Sharon Sciammas

AI Transformation & Enablement Lead. I help companies move from AI strategy to production systems.

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Apr 24, 2026

AI Agents / 8 min

My Security Stack for Open Source AI Projects

After making Orbit AI public, I rebuilt my security baseline around GitHub protections, dependency risk, CI gates, and visible maintainer decisions.

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Apr 24, 2026

AI Agents / 6 min

I Built Sharon Chat Because My AI Work Needed a Home

Sharon Chat is my owned AI workspace for coding, research, and fast idea exploration, built on Vercel Chatbot with Kimi K2.5 as the default model.

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Apr 22, 2026

AI Agents / 7 min

I Built a Vercel Coding Agent for Reviewable Work

I deployed Vercel Open Agents to test a bigger product pattern: agent work that happens in a sandbox, becomes a branch, and stays human-reviewed.

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Apr 21, 2026

AI Systems / 8 min

I Built CheckApp Because AI Content Needed Proof

A legal team asked how we knew AI had not copied a paragraph or invented a dosage. The honest answer was: we did not. So I built CheckApp.

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Apr 17, 2026

AI Engineering / 9 min

I Built an AI Ad Generator That Produces 5 Variants From a Single URL

From URL to 5 ready-to-run ad variants — copy, hero images, and CTAs — in under 60 seconds. Here's the actual architecture: Firecrawl, Gemini, FAL Flux, Vercel Blob, and every decision I made along the way.

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Apr 15, 2026

AI Agents / 4 min

I Build AI for Clients. My Job Search Was Still Manual. So I Built an Agent.

I was drowning in 40 LinkedIn job alerts a day while building AI automation for clients. So I built Jobot — an AI job search agent that reads your inbox, scrapes LinkedIn, scores every role with an LLM, and surfaces only the ones worth your time. Open source.

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Apr 2, 2026

AI Agents / 8 min

How I Built an AI Agent That Finds Warm Leads While I Sleep

I was spending 2 hours every morning scrolling LinkedIn. Then I built an AI agent that watches public engagement, role changes, and hiring context to produce a focused prospect list.

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Feb 14, 2026

OpenClaw / 6 min

What Is OpenClaw? The AI Infrastructure That Runs While You Sleep

OpenClaw isn't a chatbot. It's not another SaaS tool. It's personal AI infrastructure — autonomous agents that handle your marketing, research, operations, and security 24/7.

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Feb 12, 2026

OpenClaw / 8 min

Why Your AI Setup Is a Security Nightmare (And How OpenClaw Fixes It)

Most founders bolt on AI tools without thinking about security. OpenClaw has security as a core pillar — system hardening, vulnerability scanning, auto-updates, and self-healing infrastructure.

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Feb 10, 2026

AI Systems / 6 min

Ben Affleck Got AI Wrong - Here's What He Missed

Ben Affleck went viral breaking down AI on Joe Rogan's podcast. He's thoughtful, well-researched - and completely missing what's actually happening in AI.

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Feb 10, 2026

OpenClaw / 9 min

How OpenClaw Saves 20+ Hours Per Week: A Real Breakdown

Not theoretical. Not aspirational. Here's the actual breakdown of 17+ cron jobs running daily — from LinkedIn outreach to calendar sync to security monitoring.

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Feb 10, 2026

AI Systems / 5 min

The Infrastructure Gap: Why Personal Productivity AI Beats Org-Level Automation

Companies chase 24/7 agents but hit infrastructure walls. The real opportunity? Start with personal productivity tools that multiply employee output 2-5x.

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Feb 6, 2026

AI Systems / 6 min

AI-First Transformation: The Framework Most Companies Ignore

Everyone buys AI tools. Nobody transforms their company.

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Feb 6, 2026

AI Systems / 8 min

How AI Will Kill Innovation Theater

Not broken in the sense that companies are not trying. They are trying harder than ever. The problem is not effort. The problem is that the process itse...

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Feb 6, 2026

AI Systems / 10 min

How to Start Your AI-First Journey (Without Turning Your Company Into a Science Experiment)

It happened gradually, almost accidentally, while I was interviewing for roles and trying to explain how I think — not just what tools I use. I wanted t...

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Feb 6, 2026

AI Systems / 4 min

The Day I Stopped Believing in AI Prompts

Back in early 2025, my team and I dove headfirst into AI. Claude 5 had just dropped, GPT-5 was rolling out, and the outputs were... honestly, jaw-droppi...

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Feb 6, 2026

AI Systems / 6 min

This Isn't 'Another Tech Transition' — And Pretending It Is Misses the Point

there is a comforting argument circulating right now, articulated clearly in a recent a16z piece.

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Jan 22, 2026

AI Systems / 6 min

How I Cut Content Production from 2 Days to 4 Hours (And Why Your AI Workflow is Probably Broken)

Most people treat AI like a better search engine. I built a system that remembers, validates, and scales—cutting content production from 2 days to 4 hours.

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Jan 22, 2026

AI Agents / 3 min

One mega-prompt can't run your marketing. Here's why.

I spent 3 months trying to build the perfect prompt that handles everything. It never worked because I was building an agent when I needed a workflow. Learn why breaking your marketing into focused roles gives you control.

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Jan 21, 2026

AI Systems / 10 min

From Prompting to Systems: How I Built My Website in Hours—and What It Taught Me About Working With AI

Most people are stuck prompting, tweaking, and re-prompting AI. But the moment the task becomes real—multi-step, long-lived, with quality expectations—everything breaks. This is about what happens after that phase: building deterministic AI workflows that work when you're not watching.

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Jan 15, 2026

Vibe Coding / 12 min

How I Built This Website Using AI: A Claude Code + Ralph Story

The honest story of building a professional website using Claude Code CLI and specs-driven development - including what worked, what didn't, and what I learned.

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Oct 22, 2025

AI Systems / 4 min

8 Atlas Prompts Every Founder Should Try

Copy-paste prompts for using ChatGPT Atlas as a research, strategy, and execution workspace in one tab.

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Oct 7, 2025

Tech Leadership / 4 min

Why Giving AI Tools to Your Team Isn’t a Strategy

We flooded everyone with ChatGPT access - and ended up with chaos. Here's how we learned you need more than tools

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Oct 2, 2025

Tech Leadership / 3 min

Giving My Team Access to ChatGPT Wasn’t a Strategy - It Was Chaos

What started as a shortcut to faster marketing turned into inconsistency, mistrust, and endless fixes - until we changed our approach.

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Sep 28, 2025

AI Agents / 8 min

From Tools to Economies: The Future of Commerce where Agents Run the Show

How Agentic System Could Rewire Global Commerce

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Apr 23, 2025

AI Systems / 2 min

The Ugly Truth About AI

Why Artificial Intelligence Won't Save Broken Businesses

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Apr 20, 2025

AI News / 3 min

AI Weekly Round-Up: 20.4.2020

Here's everything you MUST know to stay up to date.

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Apr 18, 2025

AI News / 4 min

Can't Keep Up with AI? 🫠

Here's What Actually Matters Right Now

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Mar 31, 2025

AI News / 2 min

Weekly AI Roundup / 31.3.2025

Top 🌶️ Hand-Picked AI Agent Updates You Must Know About 👇

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Mar 17, 2025

AI News / 2 min

Weekly AI Roundup, week March 17th 2025

Top 🌶️ Hand-Picked AI Agent Updates You Must Know About 👇

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Mar 7, 2025

AI Agents / 14 min

How AI Agents Work: A Practical Guide 2025

A Comprehensive Guide: Understanding AI gent Technology for Dummies

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Mar 7, 2025

AI News / 5 min

Manus, China’s New AI Agent – Everything You Need to Know

Last update March 7, 2025

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Mar 7, 2025

AI Agents / 6 min

MCP Unleashed: How It’s Transforming AI

A Comprehensive Guide for MCP, March 2025

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Mar 7, 2025

AI News / 5 min

QwQ, Alibaba’s Reasoning AI – Everything You Need to Know

Update, March 7th

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Mar 7, 2025

AI News / 2 min

Weekly AI Roundup - March 7th 2025

My Top 7 🌶️ AI Agent Developments You Should Know About

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Mar 5, 2025

AI Systems / 5 min

Introduction: The AI Data Revolution

The Power of Vector Databases in AI and AI Agents: A Business Perspective

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Feb 21, 2025

AI News / 3 min

How DeepSeek V3 is Changing AI Efficiency and Costs

The AI race is heating up, and DeepSeek V3 is proving that you don't need billions of dollars to compete with the big players. With smart…

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Mar 5, 2024

Tech Leadership / 7 min

Tech Leadership in the AI Era: Leading Cross-Functional Teams

How to effectively lead technical teams in an age of rapid AI advancement and cross-functional collaboration.

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Feb 10, 2024

Vibe Coding / 6 min

Vibe Coding: A New Approach to Creative Development

Discover how vibe coding combines intuition with technical skill to create more innovative and engaging software experiences.

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Writing focus

The archive favors practical implementation notes over abstract commentary: systems, agents, architecture, adoption, and lessons from shipping.

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