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Two kinds of writing: where custom software is going, and how we actually build it — the mechanisms, the mistakes, and what we changed because of them. Everything here is published on LinkedIn and Facebook. Where a piece has working code behind it, the source is on this site.

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Forging a new era in custom business platforms

For two decades the choice was bend your business to fit off-the-shelf software, or spend six to twelve months and a fortune building something custom. Both options quietly cost you the same things: data silos, tribal knowledge, spreadsheet sprawl, and no clear view of your own operation. This piece argues the trade-off no longer holds — when the build is engineered rather than improvised, and AI is wired into the workflow instead of bolted beside it, a platform shaped to how you actually work ships in two to four weeks.

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DO NOT STOP!

Coding agents stop early. You tell one "don't stop until every test passes," and it hands the work back three files in with a status update that sounds like progress. This note takes apart why that happens, and builds the mechanism that holds an agent to the condition you actually stated — a lifecycle hook that reads the agent's own stop message and refuses the early hand-back.

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