Building useful AI products: start with friction, not the model.
A simple method for avoiding decorative AI features and focusing intelligence where it meaningfully changes a decision or task.
GURULABS / FIELD NOTES
Notes fromthe lab.
THINK → BUILD → WRITE
Focused articles on the problems I care about: building better products, reducing technical complexity, using AI with judgment, and learning across two markets.
Why a .NET developer benefits from thinking like a product builder.
Moving from ticket thinking to impact changes how APIs, validation, errors and even tests are designed.
From Mauritius to Québec: what changing markets taught me about software.
A new geography changes more than the scenery: it changes what “good software” means to users.
.NET architecture: reduce complexity before adding another pattern.
Patterns help when they remove ambiguity. Otherwise, they can simply move complexity behind more files.
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