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Healthcare AI Will Be Won by Verticals. The Recipe Has Been Around for a Decade.

May 8, 2026•8 min read

Healthcare AI Will Be Won by Verticals. The Recipe Has Been Around for a Decade.

Most healthcare AI companies are failing for the same reason. The ones winning are running the same playbook: one Palantir figured out before anyone called it AI. Forward-deployed engineer. Ontology. Integrations. Then AI tooling.

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Penpal: Dispatch Tool Today, RPG Interface Tomorrow

May 7, 2026·7 min read

Penpal: Dispatch Tool Today, RPG Interface Tomorrow

I built a tool that turns GitHub issues into pull requests using a three-agent pipeline. That's the boring part. The interesting part is what happens when you stop thinking about AI agents as productivity tools and start thinking about them as a workforce, and build a world for them to live in.

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Product Evals in Three Steps (That You'll Actually Do)

April 18, 2026·8 min read

Product Evals in Three Steps (That You'll Actually Do)

Most teams skip evals because the process feels overwhelming. The three steps that make eval-driven development achievable: label a small dataset, calibrate an LLM evaluator to human judgment, then iterate configs against the harness.

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Stop Shipping Features: Why AI Products Need an Experiment Mindset

December 11, 2025·7 min read

Stop Shipping Features: Why AI Products Need an Experiment Mindset

12 features shipped in a quarter. Zero meaningful metrics moved. AI products aren't software projects. The roadmap is a hypothesis board, not a delivery schedule, and treating it otherwise is expensive.

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When English Became a Programming Language

September 29, 2025·7 min read

When English Became a Programming Language

v0 just proved that English plus AI can replace traditional web development for most apps. That changes what it means to be a developer. An honest take on what shifts, what doesn't, and what to do about it.

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The GenAI Strategy Question You're Not Asking (But Should Be)

January 16, 2025•8 min read

The GenAI Strategy Question You're Not Asking (But Should Be)

Everyone asks 'how should we use GenAI?' The honest answer requires a harder question: does AI's unique capability create new value here, or is it just a more expensive way to do something that already worked? A practitioner's framework for getting this right in healthcare.

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Every Failed AI Product Has the Same Root Cause

December 29, 2024·7 min read

Every Failed AI Product Has the Same Root Cause

The same failure pattern shows up everywhere: teams shipping fast and iterating on vibes instead of building systematic evaluation. Evals aren't a nice-to-have. They're the core competency of any serious AI product team.

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The 6 Ways I've Watched GenAI Projects Fail (And How to Avoid Them)

December 10, 2024·8 min read

The 6 Ways I've Watched GenAI Projects Fail (And How to Avoid Them)

GenAI projects in healthcare go sideways in predictable ways, sometimes with real patient consequences. Six failure modes that come up over and over again, and what to do instead.

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The Food Truck Method: Building MVPs That Don't Suck

July 18, 2023·6 min read

The Food Truck Method: Building MVPs That Don't Suck

Most MVPs turn into dumpster fires not because teams move too fast, but because they move fast in the wrong direction. The food truck method for building without the regret.

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1Put Health

Healthcare AI Will Be Won by Verticals. The Recipe Has Been Around for a Decade.

Penpal: Dispatch Tool Today, RPG Interface Tomorrow

Product Evals in Three Steps (That You'll Actually Do)

Stop Shipping Features: Why AI Products Need an Experiment Mindset

When English Became a Programming Language

The GenAI Strategy Question You're Not Asking (But Should Be)

Every Failed AI Product Has the Same Root Cause

The 6 Ways I've Watched GenAI Projects Fail (And How to Avoid Them)

The Food Truck Method: Building MVPs That Don't Suck