Notes from people who ship.
Honest posts from 3 authors in the tunedtools community. Workflows, experiments, and the messy middle.
AI Ops Tools Comparison: Beyond the Automated Hype
A staff engineer's teardown of AIOps. We look at where tools like Groq and Selzee actually help, and where they just add noise to your on-call rotation.
AI for User Research Synthesis: Turning Data into Design Insight
Learn how to use AI for user research synthesis to transform messy transcripts into structured insights without losing the human nuance of your design process.
Charging for AI assisted work: Why your billable hours are a liability
If you are still billing by the hour while using LLMs, you are subsidizing your clients with your own margins. Here is how to price for output instead.
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.
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.