Write. Ship. Share.
Notes on building companies, AI operations, and software. I publish on Medium — 19 posts so far.
- A Prompt Is Not a Security Boundary·4 min readA language model can follow your instructions perfectly in a hundred tests and still fail in the one situation that matters.Consider a customer support agent that can issue…
- Why I’m Building a Programming Language for AI Agents·10 min readI’ve spent the last several months building a programming language from scratch in Rust. Not a framework for calling language models, not another collection of tools for building…
- I Built a Programming Language for Code That Moves Money·7 min read27 Oct 2026 · @Laurels EchichinwoA database write can end three ways. The server says yes, and it happened. The server says no, and it didn’t. Or the connection drops in the…
- Job Boards Are Becoming Obsolete. The Future of Hiring Is Verified Evidence.·11 min readHiring has spent decades teaching candidates how to look qualified. Perhaps it’s time we built a system that helps companies discover who actually is.There is something strange…
- Your Best Video Might Be Invisible to Half the World·6 min readA company spends thousands of dollars producing a product demonstration. A creator spends days researching, recording, and editing an educational video. An online instructor…
- Video Localization Is Easier Than Ever. Getting It Right Is Still Hard.·7 min readThe internet has made it possible for a creator in Nigeria to reach someone in Brazil, for a company in Germany to sell to customers in Japan, and for a teacher in the United…
- The Bookkeeping Problem Nobody Talks About: Chasing Clients for Answers·7 min readAccounting has spent the last two decades becoming increasingly digital. Bank feeds can automatically bring transactions into accounting software, receipts can be captured from a…
- AI Operations Is Becoming the New Operating Layer for Business·10 min readFor the last few years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in business has largely been about adoption.Companies asked whether they should use ChatGPT. Then they…
- AI Operations: The Missing Layer Between AI and the Business·8 min readThe conversation around artificial intelligence has moved quickly from models to agents. We now have systems that can read documents, write software, analyze conversations,…
- The Excellent Stay by Decision·8 min readWhat I learned about retention from working both sides of the resignation conversationI have made the call that starts someone’s resignation. Cold message, right timing, a role…
- A Skill That Lets an AI Agent Publish an MCP Server Without Guessing·5 min readPublishing an MCP server means touching three registries. npm holds the package. The official MCP Registry makes it discoverable to clients. Smithery lists it for a different…
- Three Problems Opossum Can’t Solve (And Why I Built a Circuit Breaker That Can)·7 min readLet me start with what I’m not claiming. Opossum is a good library. It’s the de-facto circuit breaker for Node.js, it’s maintained by the Nodeshift team, it’s battle-tested, and…
- redeye-breaker v0.5.2 Release·9 min readHow I got a distributed circuit breaker down to 13 Redis operations for 10,000 requests — and the four bugs I had to find firstA distributed circuit breaker has an embarrassing…
- How We Fixed Distributed Circuit Breakers (So You Don’t Have To)·4 min readThe 5-minute guide to protecting your Node.js services from cascading failureI’m going to be honest with you: most circuit breaker libraries for Node.js are broken.Not in the…
- Most Distributed Circuit Breakers Are Quietly Broken. Here’s What It Took To Build redeye-breaker.·8 min readMost distributed circuit breakers share state, very few correctly share behavior. I discovered that while building redeye-breaker, a Redis-backed circuit breaker for Node.js.A…
- The Claude Code Hack That Connects Your Entire Engineering Workflow (Shortcut + GitHub + Slack)·7 min readMost managers know Claude Code writes code. Almost none know it can read your Shortcut story, write the fix, open the PR on GitHub, and tell your team on Slack without leaving the…
- The Claude Code Hack Most Engineering Managers Miss: CLAUDE.md as a Silent Policy Enforcer·7 min readYour team is already using Claude Code. Here’s how to make sure it codes like your best engineer — every single time.Most engineering managers who’ve adopted Claude Code think of…
- What Claude Code Means for Your Engineering Team (A Guide for Tech Leads & EMs)·7 min readNot a hype piece. A practical look at what changes, what doesn’t, and what you need to think about.Claude Code: From Hype to the Team Workflow.You don’t need another “AI will 10x…
- We Know the Résumé is Broken. So Why Are Our “Fixes” Even Worse?·4 min readThe death of the résumé led to something worse than the résumé itself.In my last post, I talked about the biggest bug in tech: the traditional PDF résumé. It’s a self-reported…
