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Thomas Stockham

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Essays on building, technology, and learning in public.

The Builders Are Alright

AI isn't coming for everyone equally. If you're a builder, this is the most leveraged moment of your career. If most of your day is tangential to building, that's the part to pay attention to.

AIcareerproduct

How I'm Using AI to Replace Myself at Work

A walkthrough of the setup I built that lets AI do real chunks of my job. Two free tools, one folder, and a Claude Code session can have you running by tonight.

AIworkflowtoolstutorial

Nobody Is an AI Expert

'AI expert' has become one of the most overused titles on the internet, and it quietly makes conversations worse. I don't think the thing it points at actually exists.

AIcultureopinion

The End of Selling Software to Technical Users

A whole economy exists around selling tools to people who can now build their own. I don't think most of those companies realize what's coming.

AIsoftwareopinion

Your Agents Are Your Fastest Engineers and Your Most Uninformed Ones

Every AI agent on your team is a brilliant new hire on their first day. Every single session. Here's why that's costing you more than you think.

AIbuildingEngramopinion

We're All Pretending to Know More Than We Do, and It's About to Get Worse

AI is collapsing the gap between knowing nothing and speaking confidently. I think that's going to create a lot of people who sound like experts but aren't.

AIcultureopinion

How Agent Memory Works

Your AI agent forgets everything between sessions. Here's why, what the options are, and what I learned building a memory system from scratch.

AIEngrambuildingguide

I Treated My Agents Like Humans. I Built Engram to Solve Their Problems.

I built a memory protocol for AI agents because mine kept forgetting everything. Today it's live on Product Hunt.

AIbuildingEngramlaunch

How I Built This Website with Claude Code

A practical guide to building your first website with Claude Code, using mine as the example. Part two in the Zero to AI Hero series.

AIbuildingtoolstutorial

Why Highly Skilled People Are the Most Skeptical About AI

The people with the most skill tend to be the least impressed by AI. That's not a contradiction. It makes perfect sense.

AIcraftopinion

Zero to AI Hero

A non-technical guide to how AI works, how to use it well, and the tools and concepts that actually matter. Ends with an exercise so you can try it yourself.

AItoolsguide

How I Actually Use AI to Build Things

What I've learned from 700 conversations with Claude Code, the mistakes I made early on, and the practices that actually work.

AIbuildingtools

Why I'm Building in Public

The case for sharing your work before it's ready, and what I've learned from doing it.

buildingstartups