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Notes from building the company OS.

On ending SaaS sprawl, one shared core, and making a whole company legible to AI.

Engineering

Why We Have AI Write YAML Instead of Code

We finally counted, on Anthropic's own tokeniser. Describing our expenses app takes 3,245 tokens. Building the same thing from an empty folder takes 204,551. Here is where the difference goes, and why the saving is still not really about typing.

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Why We Have AI Write YAML Instead of Code
We Gave ChatGPT a Command Line and It Built a Real Time Tracking App
Engineering · 28 August 2026

We Gave ChatGPT a Command Line and It Built a Real Time Tracking App

ChatGPT cannot install our command line by itself. Hand it the Linux package and it can. It wrote a German working time app, argued with the compiler until the app passed, and published it to the platform while we watched.

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Engineering · 25 August 2026

What We Open Sourced, and What We Did Not

On 20 August the compiler and the command line tool left our private repository under Apache-2.0. Here is what you can do with them, what you cannot, and why the line sits where it does.

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Purpose-Built Beats Half-Built
Perspective · 21 July 2026

Purpose-Built Beats Half-Built

Low-code promised working apps without developers. Most companies got a canvas, a license calculator, and a flow only one person understands. AI app builders fix the wrong half.

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Stop buying software, start operating
Manifesto · 6 July 2026

Stop buying software, start operating

Every company ends up running on dozens of disconnected tools. The tools aren't the problem. What's missing is the shared foundation underneath them.

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Paying 100% for the 10% You Use
Perspective · 6 July 2026

Paying 100% for the 10% You Use

Most tools in your stack get used for one or two things and billed like you use all sixty. There is a way to buy only the part you actually need.

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