◆ playbook · blueprints
Step-by-step blueprints.
How to actually do the things vibe coders end up doing — build an agent, set up evals, ship a feature without losing the plot. Procedural, opinionated, full of the parts that are actually hard.
Architecture
03 entries- April 28, 20269 min read
How to build a custom MCP in your app.
An opinionated playbook for the in-app HTTP MCP pattern. Build it once inside your existing TypeScript app, and it pays back twice: at the keyboard interactively, and on a schedule via Routines.
read - April 27, 20268 min read
How to build an AI agent.
Why most agent projects fail at step one, and what the eight-step process actually buys you when you take it seriously.
read - May 11, 20269 min read
Choosing between RAG, MCP, and both.
The RAG-or-MCP question collapses into three architectural questions about what your system reads, acts on, and how it answers. Five worked use cases show what the picks look like.
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Workflow
03 entries- April 27, 20269 min read
The Charlie Hills LinkedIn stack.
One voice profile, eighteen skills, every channel downstream of a single newsletter.
read - June 21, 20269 min read
How to build a blog that ranks in the AI search era.
Write to be quoted, not just ranked.
read - May 17, 20266 min read
The pre-launch security checklist for vibe-coded apps.
AI builds the app. It does not ship it for you.
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