The Dev Guys Field Notes

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Featured field note

OpenAI just crossed the silicon boundary.

Why OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip marks a strategic boundary, challenges Google’s full-stack advantage, and makes ASIC adoption look inevitable at frontier scale.

AI infrastructureVertical integrationProduct architecture
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Your website gets visitors. What happens next?

Move beyond website traffic: define meaningful actions, read customer journeys honestly, inspect drop-offs, and keep attribution grounded in evidence.

Customer journeysProduct analyticsPresagio
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What a résumé leaves out—and how a portfolio can show it

A practical guide to turning résumé assertions into credible portfolio evidence by showing context, decisions, artifacts, outcomes, and honest boundaries.

Career evidenceProfessional identityPrime Portfolio
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Your field team. Your customer promise. Finally connected.

Why we built Pathway for SMEs: connected delivery and service visits, completion evidence, battery-aware tracking and work records that support better field operations.

SME field operationsDelivery & servicePrivacy by design
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Why We Built Presagio

Why we are building Presagio: founder analytics that shows how attention becomes intent, where customer journeys stall, and the evidence behind every signal.

Founder analyticsCustomer journeysProduct intelligence
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Clarity Over Chaos: Why Most Products Slow Down

Products rarely lose momentum because teams are slow. They slow down when the real problem disappears beneath assumptions, noise, and accumulated compromise.

Product leadershipFirst principlesExecution
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Translating Founder Vision Into Engineering Reality

Founders carry context that no backlog can hold. The work is translating that lived vision into a system without losing its intent.

Founder adviceProduct developmentAlignment
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AI Without the Hype

AI should earn its place. A practical guide to knowing when not to use it, where it creates real value, and how to engineer it with context, constraints, and care.

AI strategyProduct developmentPractical AI
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The Anatomy of an MVP Rescue

A stalled product did not need another rewrite. It needed a clear diagnosis, a stable core, and a team able to restore momentum.

Product rescueCase studyMVP strategy
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Inside the work

Building for understanding, not just output.

The best systems are legible. Not because they are simple, but because they are intentional. We design for clarity—so teams can reason, iterate, and improve.

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FIG. 01Understanding becomes useful when intent is made visible enough to build from.

Signal over noise

We write when we have something worth saying.

Every field note begins with something we had to understand well enough to build.