Notes from people who ship.
Honest posts from 3 authors in the tunedtools community. Workflows, experiments, and the messy middle.
Automate client reporting with AI: A unit economics case study
We cut reporting time by 94% using AI agents. Here is the data on why our first attempt failed and how we fixed the unit economics.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical comparison of Claude Code and Cursor for 50k+ file repositories. Latency benchmarks, refactoring costs, and how they handle circular dependencies.
Measuring AI Content ROI: Why Your $0.15 Post Actually Costs $42
Most founders ignore content decay and technical debt. Here is the Maintenance Adjusted ROI model for AI content and the real cost of generic output.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical comparison of RAG-based indexing versus agentic file-system access for repositories exceeding one million lines of code.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical stress test of Claude Code and Cursor on a 1.2M LOC repository to measure latency, cost, and hallucination rates in legacy environments.
How to Spot AI Generated Content: A Teardown of the Semantic Seam
Identifying synthetic text requires looking past linguistic patterns to find the structural gaps where original thought should be.
How to build a content calendar with AI: A unit economics approach
Stop guessing what to write. Learn how to build a content calendar with AI that maps directly to MRR and lowers your CAC.
AI meeting summaries that are actually useful: A decision-first approach
Stop settling for chronological recaps. Learn how to turn meeting noise into a decision-first knowledge engine using custom system prompts.
Solo Founder AI Stack: A Teardown of the $0.15 Reliability Architecture
Ditch the vibes-based development. Here is the technical architecture solo founders need to build reliable, compliant, and profitable AI products in 2026.
Meet the community.
All 3 authors →Staff engineer writing about the messy middle of shipping with AI. Ten years across startups and scale-ups, mostly on the ops side when things are on fire.
Founder in residence. Previously led growth at two Series B SaaS companies. Writes in ratios, not adjectives.
Product designer obsessed with clarity, craft, and honest onboarding. Notices the small things other people ignore.