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Refreshing nicuparente.com (Fall 2026)

I've been quietly shipping updates to this site since spring, so here's a roundup of everything that's changed. 1// Notes can hold more than one photo This one shipped today. Notes now show multiple images as a peek carousel, so you can see the next photo at t…

September Recap: VetsinTech Seattle Turns One + Dreamforce

September has been a packed month for me, with the VetsinTech Seattle AI Prototyping Workshop + our 1st anniversary, followed by Dreamforce. 1// VetsinTech Seattle: AI Prototyping Workshop + 1 Year Celebration I'm more than a week late, but a huge thank you to…

Prototypes with AI

Product Delight - Monarch

Product delight is when a product solves a problem you didn't know you had. Mine wasn't a missed budgeting item. It was a health one. Monarch is out here reminding me I can't outrun a bad diet. LOL

Lower Barriers, Higher Payoffs

AI has redefined what solopreneurs and small teams can achieve. The barrier to entry has dropped. The ceiling on payoffs went up. The competition got fiercer. And it's not just in startups either, even internal teams within enterprises are seeing this. I've sa…

Be the man in the right arena.

Not the fodder in another man's battle. You can win it all and still lose what matters most.

What does Brandy have in common with some service providers right now?

What do they have in common? They are down. But only Brandy wants to be down. My feed has been filled with GitHub and Claude outages. Which led me to another unnecessary diagram of RnB X Service Uptime. But it does make you think that the new AI-first paradigm…

There isn't enough tokens to burn or AI agents to deploy to fix a bad culture.

Technology has evolved over the centuries, but the hardest problem to solve is still people.

OpenRouter + Stripe = Universal Compute Credits?

With the news of OpenRouter being acquired by Stripe, I think we are one step closer to converting AI tokens to food you can eat. I had a tongue-in-cheek post about this back in March, when Jensen Huang story about using AI tokens as comp was floating around.…

TL;AR

TL;AR (Too Long; AI Read) seems to be the new pattern. I've written docs and even added TL;DRs, expecting people to at least read those, but now people feed them to AI for a summary. TBH, I'm also guilty of using an AI workflow to turn Gemini Note summaries in…

Official Anthropic Courses

Free online courses by Anthropic covering modules for the Claude Certified Architect

Got my WTA Green Hat

Spent a day this summer with WTA's Middle Fork trail crew, near Snoqualmie Pass. Also got my green hat, with my name on it. Now time to fill it with some stickers, like a 2015 MacBook Pro with all the different tech stack you rep. Also shoutout to Salesforce f…

The goal of a PRD is clarity. Not 10,000 words.

So whether you're writing it or generating it with AI, make sure your team can actually read and comprehend the purpose of what you're building in 10 minutes. Or there will be a lot of "claude: give me the TL;DR for this", which at that point you're writing fo…

Life has been lifing in the past 2.5 months

Between personal travel, demanding workload, and multiple Veterinary ER and specialist visits because Nala, one of our dogs, had heart cancer out of the blue. We ultimately lost her, and the entire ordeal was rough, but I'm grateful that we got the chance to c…

Built with AI, a business or an expensive hobby

Inspired by Gregory Kennedy's post

Compute as Comp

In other news, 21 founders are launching a marketplace to resell AI compute comps this weekend after reading this Business Insider headline on Jensen Huang. Also, new TC GTFO on Blind $150k base 12% annual bonus $100k stock (4-year vest) $100k compute credits…

Keith Sweat X VP of Product X TPM

Interrupting your AI-slop content is a diagram Nobody asked for. Much like the feature that got shipped after a 16-hour offsite workshop. The song's been stuck in my head all week. You're welcome. Anyway, happy Friday.

Defining Your Identity

Tailscale <3

Local LLMs and AI agents are awesome, but what keeps blowing my mind is Tailscale The fact that I can get a multi-device setup in less than 15 minutes is amazing (phone, laptop, and 2 desktops in my case). Last time I set up something similar using OpenVPN a f…

AI and I

I think, therefore, I am.