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Building an AI-native product
Six months into shipping with Claude as the primary engineer. Interested in cognitive design, anti-engagement-bait, and what platforms look like when the user is the One.
Alex Reynolds4dPublicbuild·workSix months into building with Claude Code as the primary engineer and I think the biggest shift isn't speed — it's that I now refuse to ship code I don't understand. The AI's velocity made human comprehension the bottleneck, which it should have been all along.
Alex Reynolds4dPublicnews·learnReading the Hindenburg report on a major IPO from last week. The accounting flags they raise are genuinely concerning. Not financial advice, just an interesting case study in forensic accounting.
Alex Reynolds4dPublicconnectHot take from this morning: "engagement" is the most load-bearing word in tech. Once a metric is named that, the product is no longer optimizing for the user — it's optimizing for whoever buys the engagement.