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Nicolas Bustamante

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42 from 1 Feb 2021 to 30 May 2026
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2026 13

  1. My Agent Stack For Automating My Personal Life
  2. Long Running Agent Engineering
  3. Model-Harness-Fit
  4. Agent Memory Engineering
  5. Hard Lessons Building Agents Since GPT-3.5
  6. Microsoft Has Acquired Fintool
  7. 10 Years Building Vertical Software: My Perspective on the Selloff
  8. The LLM Context Tax: Best Tips for Tax Avoidance
  9. The Crumbling Workflow Moat: Aggregation Theory's Final Chapter
  10. ChatGPT Killed the Web: For the Better?
  11. LLMs Eat Scaffolding for Breakfast
  12. Lessons from Building AI Agents for Financial Services
  13. Model-Market Fit

2025 3

  1. Are LLMs Plateauing? No. You Are.
  2. The RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context Windows
  3. Domain names I own

2024 4

  1. But But, You Were Supposed to Be a GPT Wrapper?!
  2. Fintool, Warren Buffett as a Service
  3. How to build a shitty product
  4. Burning Billions: The Gamble Behind Training LLM Models

2023 1

  1. What We Learned Building the Largest GPT-Telegram Bot

2022 4

  1. The End of My Crypto Explorations
  2. Startups Selling Sand in the Desert
  3. Where is Your Fire Phone?
  4. Look How Big My Team is!

2021 17

  1. Death by Fundraising
  2. Putting your Reputation at Risk
  3. Incentive and Skin in the Game
  4. How much Leverage?
  5. Surviving Capitalism with Competitive Moats
  6. How to Calculate Intrinsic Value
  7. How to Buy Back Shares
  8. How to Reinvest Earnings
  9. The Dichotomy of Leadership
  10. Margin of Safety
  11. Leadership Lessons Learned in Combat
  12. The Power of the OKR Framework
  13. Compounding with Long-Term People
  14. Facing the Innovator's Dilemma
  15. The Intelligent CEO
  16. The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  17. Have Fun Staying Poor!