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AI Agents: Getting More Done Isn’t the Same as Creating Value

Article 7 in a series on building with and using AI tools as a non-native technologist

Mar 29 • Leonid Prilutskiy

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Where in the Stack Should You Build?

At one point I had created a library of over 50 SQL and Opensearch template queries I used each week to wrangle up data for ML training.

Mar 22 • Leonid Prilutskiy

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There Are No Laws, Only Principles

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Mar 15 • Leonid Prilutskiy

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Judgment Was Always the Bottleneck

This is Article 5 in a series on building with AI tools as a non-native technologist.

Mar 8 • Leonid Prilutskiy

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I Couldn’t Find the App I Needed, So I Built It. Here’s What I Learned.

I spent weeks asking ChatGPT, Google, and every tool I could find the same question: if I move to this neighborhood, how close is the nearest park I’d…

Mar 1 • Leonid Prilutskiy

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