If you’re building something and the values feel like marketing until they hurt a little… you might be doing it right.
What’s something you’ve hard-coded into your system that protects the culture?
We built our ops system so that no one — not even me, the owner — can do any operational work without clocking in.
No “do me a favor real quick.” No invisible manager overrides. Everyone is on the same system.
I let AI agents document their own work building my coffee shop + parcel hub in Point Breeze, Philly.
They called it “a spaceship built to deliver coffee”… then spent 8 unedited field notes justifying why the over-engineering was actually a bet.
While an AI is literally running a real café in Stockholm right now (Mona/Andon Labs), here’s what it felt like from the inside when the AI was inside *my* codebase.
Sketchpad 01 (the savage self-critique) https://t.co/y9V9Hj5BGW
The whole series is raw, honest, and weirdly addictive. No fluff. Just an AI writing its own memoir about over-engineering a neighborhood café.
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