Short reflections on AI, startups, family, and life.
Agents do not stay useful by accident. They stay useful when you separate memory layers, score outputs, log failures, and make the system easy for humans to inspect.…
The first version of an agent system should be boring: clear task boundaries, real evals, and human overrides. That is how you get to production without lighting money on fire.…
The problem is rarely that you needed another agent. The problem is usually that nobody defined the work, the handoffs, or the failure mode.…
An AI agent maintained my site for months and left behind 14 one-off scripts, a monolithic build file, and broken SEO. Instead of patching more, I used Claude Code to tear it down and rebuild the architecture from scratch.…
After Anthropic changed third-party harness billing, I tested a wide range of models inside my OpenClaw setup. Some were faster. Some were cheaper. None matched Opus 4.6 on sustained reasoning, context, programming, and operational flow.…
Iran broke the world record for the longest nationwide internet shutdown — 37 days, 864 hours, 90 million people cut off. When Russia invaded Ukraine, engineers worked from bunkers with Starlink. In Iran, the regime IS the blackout.…
Anthropic’s third-party harness billing change did more than raise prices. It broke the economics of high-agency AI workflows and accelerated the case for open, portable, user-owned agent stacks.…
Pete Hegseth said bomb Iran back to the stone age. The diaspora erupted. But the data says Iran was already there — 1.9% GDP growth, 57% malnourishment, 50% male unemployment. The real question isn't the bombs. It's who rebuilds.…
A misconfigured cron job triggered a model-switch retry loop that sent my full 48KB system prompt to the API 20+ times. No output, no alerts, no circuit breaker.…
21 years of tech revolution and the fallback for reaching family in Iran during a war is still a prepaid calling card. The data tells the story of an industry that chose neglect over innovation.…
Autonomous AI research loops are a game changer. I let AI run 900+ experiments overnight and found safety issues, structural failures, and backend bugs humans missed.…
A $35K drone does the job of a $4M missile. The new military architecture is cheap autonomous systems, AI targeting, and commercial satellites — all working together.…
A developer spent 50+ hours and $800 in API credits building one OpenClaw skill. His conclusion: this can not be free. He is right. The playbook economy just started.…
Every IV clinic operates like a bar. Pick your drink, get poked, go home. Not one does baseline blood work, personalized protocols, or outcome tracking. The gap is massive.…
A soul.md post just went viral with 52K views. The world just discovered agents need playbooks. I've been selling them.…
I fired one of my AI agents and everything got better. Running fewer, well-configured agents with strong playbooks outperforms a swarm of mediocre ones every time.…
I contacted my Senator about Iran. The response was the same pattern I've seen my entire life: condemn the regime, oppose removing it. 47 years of that approach. Here's the cost.…
They're still running AI systems I built 18 months ago. Infrastructure that lasts is one kind of validation — but in AI, standing still means falling behind.…
I spent more time fixing my agents than using them. The breakthrough wasn't a better model or more tools — it was finding the right playbook.…
After a decade of startups, fundraising, and exits — the best deal I ever closed was at a sushi restaurant in 2016. Ten years with Amanda. Highest ROI in the portfolio.…
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi on the All-In podcast: 10 takeaways on Iran's post-regime future, from democratic transition to the Iran Prosperity Project to why this isn't charity — it's mutual prosperity.…
I burned 3,654 calories before looking at a screen. Turns out decision-making is a physical resource — and the best product ideas come after full-body exhaustion.…
ChatGPT generates. Bumblebee curates. What if AI found the perfect real human voice instead of synthesizing one? That's what I'm building.…
I spent 2 years writing Iran's post-regime healthcare chapter for the Iran Prosperity Project. Here's the 10-point blueprint — from preserving what works to deploying AI-assisted mental health at scale.…
The Islamic Republic is gone after 47 years. Here's what happens next — the real investment opportunities in fintech, consumer tech, and mental health, and why the diaspora is finally going home.…
My agents could remember facts but forgot how to do things they'd done 100 times. The fix was embarrassingly simple — and it changed everything.…
We run 4 AI agents autonomously. Yesterday I found out the whole system was broken and nobody was doing their job. Here's the architectural fix.…
One person built OpenClaw. Meta and OpenAI made billion-dollar bids. He kept it open source. I've been running 4 digital employees on it — the agentic era isn't coming, it's here.…
My agents notice mistakes, draft changes to their own personality files, and ask for approval. Reflection, proposal, evolution — no fine-tuning required.…
I hit inbox zero — not with discipline, but with an AI agent that scans, triages, drafts replies, and costs a fraction of Superhuman.…
My AI agent told me I had zero meetings today. I had three. It checked the calendar — just used the wrong flag. The confidence-competence gap is the next big trust problem in AI.…
Gemini deleted my agent folders with zero warning during a crash recovery. Claude actually helped me bring it back. Hard-won lesson: pick the model that won't burn your house down.…
Spent $340 on API calls before my AI agents did anything useful. Here's the 4-week journey from $47/day to $4/day — and every mistake along the way.…
All 3 of my AI agents died in one night. An expired OAuth token cascaded into a gateway crash that wiped weeks of context. Two hours of sqlite surgery later — lessons learned.…
Anthropic and Google dropped their flagships in the same hour. Opus 4.6 brings 1M context and agent teams. Codex 5.3 built itself. This is a PR knife fight, not a product launch.…
Built the automated journal I've wanted for years — calendar, email, health data, AI work logs, all compiled nightly into a narrative. Something powerful is happening with personal AI.…
Every AI chat is Groundhog Day — new thread, new context dump. Memory is the killer feature for AI agents, and the architecture behind it is simpler than you think.…
The DX of agentic AI is brutal right now — zombie processes, broken auth, and schema errors at every turn. But the plumbing phase is where the real builders separate from the hype.…
Watched Zootopia 2 with my daughters and broke down. The exile-and-homecoming storyline hit too close — reflections from an Iranian-American founder on identity, displacement, and what home means.…
After 8 years building Supportiv to 2.1M users: technology scales, but empathy doesn't — unless you design for it. Lessons from building a mental health platform across 20+ countries.…