edwin

edwin

New York
email: edwin at uristocrat.com
Studios - June 12, 2026

Studios - June 12, 2026

This week, we worked on the skills store, the main site, and a new property. If you want to know
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How to improve collaboration by making skills and projects multiplayer

Claude and ChatGPT are single-player by default. You open a chat, do good work, and the result stays with you
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Getting a Product Org to Use AI

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Mixtape: A Case Study on how to plan, research, and ship with Claude

Mixtape: A Case Study on how to plan, research, and ship with Claude

Mixtape is an app built with Claude. Here's the real process behind planning it and getting it shipped.
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Lessons from the Early Innings of AI

Uber burned through its 2026 AI budget by April and Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses. The press says AI isn't delivering. The real story is companies rolled out tools without scoping where they pay back.
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Using AI to Slow Down

One of the recurring themes Every morning when I plan my day is "slow down." Over the last
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My Second Brain: How I Use Obsidian, Why I Left Roam, and the Getting Things Done Setup Underneath It

I have been running some version of a second brain since 2020. It moved from Roam Research to Obsidian, and
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The Knowledge Harness: How Uristocrat.com Keeps AI Output Trustworthy

The Knowledge Harness Engineers do not rely on raw large language model output; instead, they use verification systems. When AI
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The PM is dead. Long live the builder.

Both things are true. They're the same sentence. Cursor and Claude Code write the code. v0 and Lovable
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How I Build Products in Spring 2026

The bottleneck I find isn't with building anymore, but rather knowing what to build. With AI, I can
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