AI & Automation
AI Rework Is the Hidden Cost of AI Speed
AI made first drafts cheap. It did not make finished work cheap. For many small teams, the real cost moved into review loops, cleanup, and coordination.
Apr 10, 2026
Articles by Dzmitry Vladyka (15)
Startup Ops
MCP Servers: Vertical Niches Solo Founders Should Build Now
Over 19,500 MCP servers exist today. Most of them are commodities. Here's the specific approach that lets solo founders carve out a defensible slice of this growing market.
Apr 7, 2026
AI & Automation
Why Teams With Worse Models Beat Teams With Better Ones
Every quarter brings a new SOTA AI video model. Every quarter, teams obsessing over model comparisons fall further behind. Here's why the pipeline wins.
Apr 6, 2026
AI & Automation
The Reason 89% of AI Agents Never Ship Isn't the Model
71% of organizations report using AI agents. Only 11% have reached production. The gap has nothing to do with the model.
Apr 4, 2026
AI & Automation
Every Major SaaS Has MCP Now. You Should Sell One First.
MCP crossed 97 million monthly SDK downloads in March 2026. Over 11,000 servers exist. Less than 5% are monetized. This is the solo founder opportunity of the year.
Mar 29, 2026
Engineering
Hetzner VPS Security: Close Port 22 with Tailscale + ufw
Lock down SSH on your Hetzner VPS with Tailscale and restrict port 443 to Cloudflare IPs only. Our exact production ufw setup — no public SSH port, no direct origin access.
Mar 24, 2026
AI & Automation
Build the Kill Switch Before Your AI Agent Ships
80% of organizations reported risky AI agent behaviors in 2026. Here's the five-layer kill switch architecture—global hard stop, session pause, scoped blocks, spend governors, and sandbox rollback—that any solo founder can implement before shipping.
Mar 21, 2026
AI & Automation
AI Agents in 2026: Start With Workflows First
64% of organizations report active AI use in operations. Here's why small teams should start with measurable workflows before betting on full autonomy in 2026.
Mar 21, 2026
AI & Automation
The $0 Salary Team: How Agents Became the Best Hire of 2026
AI agents in 2026 aren't just chatbots. They're persistent, goal-oriented systems handling ops, research, support, and content workflows—helping solo builders and small SaaS teams do more without adding headcount.
Mar 13, 2026
Engineering
Your AI Vibe-Coded That SaaS. Did You Actually Read It?
Many founders who vibe code hit the same wall after the initial MVP sprint. Here's the habit system that stops AI-generated SaaS code from collapsing under real users.
Mar 7, 2026
Engineering
Your Next Coworker Codes at 3 AM (AI Agents, 2026)
Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex are battling to become the default AI coding agent. Here's what each tool actually does differently and how to pick the right one.
Mar 2, 2026
Engineering
The Cron That Reads Your Sentry Every Morning — and Opens PRs Before You Wake Up
Wire an AI coding agent to Sentry and it reads unresolved errors every morning, proposes fixes via PRs, and slows down your quota burn — automatically.
Mar 1, 2026