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  <updated>2026-09-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <name>Maurice Kleine</name>
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    <title>ride the floor up</title>
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    <updated>2026-09-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>ai raises the floor of what technology does for us. how to keep raising your own ceiling while it does</summary>
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    <title>the journey no longer matters</title>
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    <updated>2026-09-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>fifteen years of loving the craft of building software. what happens when the craft stops being the point</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>my agents merged 468 prs in 23 days. i didn't read a single one of them.</title>
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    <id>https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/my-agents-merged-468-prs</id>
    <updated>2026-08-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>how hyperspeed runs my coding agents overnight, and why planning and validation are the job now</summary>
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    <title>dude, where is the roi?</title>
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    <updated>2026-03-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>you followed every step of the ai hype cycle. so where is the return? on tinkering versus shipping</summary>
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