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• OpenClaw-Inspired Self-Evolving AI Assistant for Local-First IDE Workflows

  Designing a lightweight, file-based AI system with structured memory and evolution using Cursor IDE rules

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  Posted on February 27, 2026

  

  

  In early 2026, an open-source project called OpenClaw exploded onto the scene, surpassing 230,000 GitHub stars within weeks. It represented a fundamental shift in how we think about AI assistants: not as stateless chatbots, but as persistent, context-aware digital coworkers that run on your own hardware. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Local-First AI
  • Self-Evolving Systems
  • AI Architecture
  • IDE Assistants
  • Product Thinking
  • Privacy-Preserving AI
  • Developer Tools

• RAG vs Context Engineering: Insights and Limitations

  Why retrieval-augmented generation is not universal

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  Posted on February 6, 2026

  

  

  Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the default architecture for grounding LLMs in enterprise knowledge. The industry conversation, however, often conflates “using RAG” with “solving the knowledge problem.” These are not the same thing, and treating them interchangeably leads to brittle systems, wasted investment, and false confidence in production. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • RAG
  • Context Engineering
  • Agentic RAG
  • Information Retrieval
  • AI Architecture
  • Product Thinking
  • LLM Systems

• Escalation by Design: Multi-Agent Fact-Checking with Policy Constraints

  How confidence thresholds and human routing reduce false positives in content moderation

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  Posted on January 27, 2026

  

  

  Content moderation at scale is one of the hardest problems in modern tech. When platforms like TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook need to make decisions about billions of pieces of content daily, they cannot just build a better AI model and call it solved. The real challenge is not only detecting... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Confidence Gating
  • Escalation Design
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Policy Constraints
  • Content Moderation
  • False Positive Reduction

• The Semantic Layer in Modern Data Architecture

  Why data lakes, lakehouses, and meshes still fail without a governed semantic layer

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  Posted on February 13, 2025

  

  

  At Volvo Cars, data is generated at enormous scale across manufacturing lines, supply chain systems, dealer networks, connected vehicles, and procurement platforms. The challenge is not producing data. The challenge is producing meaning. Across 50+ teams, the same metric was calculated differently. “Duty savings” alone had 23 conflicting definitions. Finance... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Semantic Layer
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Architecture
  • Metrics
  • Data Governance
  • dbt
  • BI Product
  • Volvo Cars
  • Data Lakehouse
  • Data Mesh
  • Data Platform

• Discovery Frameworks and ROI Modeling for Procurement AI

  Shadowing buyers to quantify cognitive load, then building RAG that reduces search time by 25%

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  Posted on February 2, 2025

  

  

  Procurement at Volvo Cars manages 1,169 suppliers, over 7,000 contracts, and millions in annual spend distributed across three fragmented legacy systems: VGS, VPC, and SI+. When I joined this initiative, there was no product brief. What I had was a vague executive mandate to “explore AI for procurement” and a... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • User Shadowing
  • Cognitive Load Measurement
  • RAG Architecture
  • Search Time Reduction
  • Procurement Technology
  • Discovery Methods

• Photo-to-Listing in 7 Seconds: Unit Economics and Emotional Design in Mobile AI

  Balancing inference costs, activation friction, and delight in a solo-built resale app

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  Posted on January 24, 2025

  

  

  SnapSell is a solo-built case study in managing AI quality risk within constrained economics. The product transforms a single photo into a complete resale listing, but the core challenge was designing a system that balances inference costs, hallucination risk, and user trust without human review infrastructure. I designed every decision... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Mobile-First AI
  • Unit Economics
  • Solo Product Building
  • Activation Friction
  • Emotional Design
  • Resale Technology
  • MVP Design

• Four-Layer Harm Mitigation in Enterprise AI

  How model selection, grounding, and UX constraints combine to build trustworthy procurement systems

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  Posted on January 17, 2025

  

  

  Over the past year building generative AI capabilities inside Volvo Cars’ procurement organization, I confronted a fundamental challenge: how do you deploy generative AI in a high-stakes environment where mistakes carry legal, financial, and compliance consequences? The answer wasn’t better models or more features. It was turning an inherently uncertain... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Multi-Layer Safety
  • Enterprise AI Safety
  • Grounding Design
  • UX Constraints
  • Procurement AI
  • Trustworthy AI Systems

• Moving Failure Upstream for SWIFT Validation at Airwallex

  Corridor-aware validation that balances precision vs conversion to reduce support load by 25%

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  Posted on January 15, 2025

  

  

  Airwallex’s core promise is to make global payments feel local. The company invests heavily in local payment rails (ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments), multi-currency accounts, and a unified internal ledger powering collections, FX, payouts, and cards. From the outside, this looks like a clean, modern alternative to traditional banks. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Failure Upstream
  • Corridor-Aware Validation
  • Precision vs Conversion
  • Payment Infrastructure
  • Support Load Reduction
  • Reliability Engineering

• Turning Federated Data Chaos into Controllable Decision Systems

  How I framed risk, designed decision boundaries, and scaled governance without breaking autonomy

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  Posted on June 11, 2024

  

  

  At Volvo Cars, dozens of domain teams gained the ability to publish data products independently under a federated data mesh architecture. Development velocity increased dramatically. So did the rate of silent failures. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Data Contracts
  • Federated Governance
  • Contract-Driven Design
  • Data Mesh
  • Governance UX
  • Data Product Management

• Circadian Science for Personalized Sleep Plans

  Translating temperature minimum (t-min) research into personalized, age-constrained sleep plans

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  Posted on February 1, 2024

  

  

  When my family faced a long-haul flight with a 3-month-old, I realized that every piece of jet lag advice I could find was designed for solo business travelers. Nothing addressed the cascading failure that happens when a baby, a toddler, and two exhausted parents all lose their sleep anchors at... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Scientific Product Design
  • Circadian Science
  • Hypothesis-Driven Development
  • Health Tech
  • Age-Constrained Design
  • Sleep Products

• akaTask: From Ambiguous Parenting Pain Points to a Shipped AI Task Manager

  How structured problem framing, deliberate tradeoffs, and disciplined scoping turned messy user research into a live product

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  Posted on January 5, 2024

  

  

  New parents face a sprawling, emotionally charged problem space: sleep deprivation, information overload, shifting routines, and constant decision fatigue. When I started exploring this space, there was no single well-defined problem to solve, only a tangle of anxieties, fragmented workarounds, and strong opinions from every direction. This case study walks... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • RICE Prioritization
  • Parenting Products
  • MVP Metrics
  • User Shadowing
  • Task Management
  • Feature Prioritization
  • Zero-to-One
  • AI Product Management

• Mapping Cognitive Load to AI Feature Bets from Parent Interviews

  How 20 interviews and 150 surveys turned ambiguous parenting pain into a scoped AI product with measurable time savings

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  Posted on January 3, 2024

  

  

  This project began with a vague hypothesis: new parents are overwhelmed, and “something with AI” could help. That is not a product. It is a sentiment wrapped in a buzzword. The real work was figuring out which problems were acute enough to warrant a new tool, where AI would genuinely... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • User Research
  • Cognitive Load Mapping
  • Product Discovery
  • Decision Frameworks
  • AI Product Strategy
  • Research-to-Product