Notes from people who ship.
Honest posts from 3 authors in the tunedtools community. Workflows, experiments, and the messy middle.
Automated Incident Response with AI: A Governance-First Guide
Stop letting LLMs have root access. Learn to build a policy-driven framework for automated incident response with AI using hard guardrails and deterministic checks.
Writing a newsletter with AI: Building a Curation Engine
Learn how to build an automated curation workflow that uses AI for research while keeping your unique editorial voice intact.
Generative UI Patterns: Building with Deterministic Schemas
Move beyond unpredictable AI interfaces. Learn how deterministic schema registries create accessible, brand-consistent generative UI that actually works.
AI for SEO Content at Scale: Managing the $0.14 Unit Cost of Decay
Stop shipping static AI pages that die in three months. Learn how to build a high-volume SEO engine that automates factual updates and internal linking.
GitHub Copilot Alternatives That Actually Work for Staff Engineers
Tired of Copilot hallucinations? I tested five alternatives that actually handle complex context and reduce your rollback rate.
Running Local LLMs for Coding: Why Your M3 Max Isn't Enough
A post-mortem on our attempt to move AI coding workflows off-cloud. Performance benchmarks, memory pressure, and why we went back to a hybrid setup.
AI Video Editing Workflow: Comparing Generative and Assistive Tools
A deep look at how an AI video editing workflow reduces friction between ideation and the final export through generative and assistive tools.
ChatGPT vs Claude for Marketing Copy: The $0.12 Unit Economics of Scale
A data-driven comparison of ChatGPT and Claude for marketing workflows, focusing on edit distance, brand drift, and conversion framework performance.
How to use AI for code refactoring: A staff engineer's guide
Stop treating AI as a magic wand for legacy code. Learn how to build verification pipelines that treat LLMs as proposal engines, not authority figures.
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.