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Moe Hachem
December 10, 2025

The 200-Prompt Wall

I've spent the better part of this year building prototypes with AI assistance. Three production pro...

Moe Hachem
November 10, 2025
- AI architecture,
- Professional Practice

AI-assisted development breaks around prompt 200, but it doesn't have to

AI-assisted development breaks around prompt 200 - But it doesn't have to! Of course, your mileage...

What a brick teaches us about AI-driven product development

What does a brick have in common with AI-driven product development? Louis Kahn, one of the greates...

I shipped a beta, almost production-grade PWA fast, less than a day

I shipped a beta, almost production-grade PWA fast, less than a day. Here's the framework that made ...

Moe Hachem
February 16, 2026
- AI architecture,
- Professional practice

Spec-first is anxiety management

You're in unknown territory. Your instinct says: "We need a detailed spec because this is unfamiliar...

AI can get you 90% of the way to a spec in seconds

AI can get you 90% of the way to a spec in seconds. That might be the problem. There's something ...

What if AI could learn to remember?

What if AI could learn to remember? It already does. Just not the way you think. We've been solvi...

Moe Hachem
February 19, 2026
- AI architecture,
- Professional practice

AI lets you move at 240 km/h

AI lets you move at 240 km/h. That's both a gift and a trap. I've been going deep with AI lately, a...

Builder mode vs architect mode in AI development

I was formally trained as an architect. I can't un-see systems now. Everything is interconnected, st...

The biggest lie in AI-assisted development

The biggest lie in AI-assisted development: "Just generate better specs and your problems will go aw...

The moat hiding in plain sight is memory

Everyone's debating whether to build up or down from general AI. Nobody's talking about the moat h...

Moe Hachem
February 21, 2026
- AI architecture,
- Professional practice

Communication engineering beats prompt engineering

Do you "communication engineer" like you "prompt engineer"? Clients get shocked when they ask desig...

The AI isn't an oracle, it's a collaborator

The AI isn't an oracle, it's a collaborator. There's a fundamental difference between consulting an...

Moe Hachem
February 24, 2026

The problem with AI isn't intelligence. It's orientation.

Every team I talk to has the same complaint: The outputs are generic. The AI sounds confident but ...

Moe Hachem
February 25, 2026

How I maintain coherence across 66,000 lines of code without losing the thread

Most AI-augmented development workflows break somewhere between promt 50 and 200, or as I've come to...

Moe Hachem
February 26, 2026

Why AI outputs feel 60% relevant

There's a particular type of frustrating AI output that most teams recognize right away. It’s well-s...

Ambiguity is information, not a problem

We've built tools that turn ambiguity into structure, then lied to ourselves and called that progres...

Moe Hachem
February 27, 2026

Documentation tells you what happened. An index tells AI where to look.

Documentation tells you what happened. An index tells AI where to look. These are not the same artif...

Moe Hachem
February 28, 2026

Building four products in parallel while holding a full-time job — the system, not the hustle

This is not a productivity post. I'm not going to tell you to wake up at 5am - Because that usually ...

The architect and the builder

There are two ways to build with AI. The architect and the builder. The builder sees a plan and p...

Moe Hachem
February 28, 2026

Why I went the opposite direction from spec-first

Everyone's rushing to AI tools that promise "comprehensive specs in one prompt." I went the opposit...

I've gotten lazy in the best way

People ask me: What's it like to use AI-driven development with your SR-SI and persistent memory met...

You don't fix a memory problem by adding more memory

You don't fix a memory problem by adding more memory. That's what so many AI companies are getting w...

You don't fix a memory problem by adding more memory

You don't fix a memory problem by adding more memory. That's what so many AI companies are getting w...

Moe Hachem
March 8, 2026
- AI architecture,
- Professional practice

Don't brief AI with history. Orient it with a map

You don't hand a new hire six months of meeting notes. You give them a map and help them find their ...

Moe Hachem
March 9, 2026
- AI architecture,
- Professional practice

Encyclopedia vs index: why longer prompts don't fix AI

Think about the difference between giving someone an encyclopedia and giving them an index. It's th...

Moe Hachem
March 27, 2026

Gestalt is live. What building it revealed about the problem it solves

I built Gestalt because I kept running into the same wall. I was building multiple products simulta...

Moe Hachem
March 30, 2026

Why AI context degrades — and the architectural fix that actually works

Every team that works with AI long enough hits the same wall. The sessions start sharp. The model kn...

Moe Hachem
March 31, 2026

Protocol: building a fitness OS for coaches who've outgrown their tools

Protocol launched March 1, 2026. In its current form, it's free to use for personal training — any a...

From design intent to working components

# From Design Intent to Working Components **A codebase-first pipeline for turning visual decisions ...

Moe Hachem
March 31, 2026

From Design Intent to Working Components

Most teams solve visual consistency the same way: they rely on developers remembering the design dec...