Tarik's Notebook.

Fewer buzzwords. More things that actually work.

Building things that hold up.

Building things that hold up.

A running log of ideas, projects, and notes on building software that works.

I got tired of watching AWS all day, so I built an agent to do it for me

I got tired of watching AWS all day, so I built an agent to do it for me

Every founder running AWS ends up with the same daily ritual: checking Billing, Cost Explorer, RDS, S3, out of habit. I got tired of it, so I built an open-source agent that watches your account, reports status in plain English, and only acts within carefully tiered permissions.

AI Isn't Smart or Dumb. The Person Using It Is.

AI Isn't Smart or Dumb. The Person Using It Is.

AI can make people faster, or it can make them louder. Here's the pattern I keep seeing across teams that lean hard into it, and where the line actually sits between the two.