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Tinley Park · July 18, 2026Build Daily — Neil Godfrey building in the open.
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§The Index
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34Field Notes
- Loop engineering without the cloud billJun 30
- Anatomy of an AI productJun 27
- Base wants to be the chain for AI agentsJun 27
- Build an AI ProductJun 27
- DSPy vs LangChain for typed LLM programmingJun 27
- Prompt engineering was never the bottleneckJun 27
- The voice gate that grades me, tooJun 27
- What is DSPy?Jun 27
- Running agents on the goJun 20
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70Daily Log
- Jul 13Montidying
- Jul 12Sunclosing-gaps
- Jul 11Satmeasure
- Jul 10Frigrounded
- Jul 9Thuconvergence
- Jul 8Wedcadence
- Jul 7Tuetwo-fronts
- Jul 6Mondiscipline
03
24Resources
- LangChainsdkwatching
- LangGraphsdkwatching
- LangSmithtoolwatching
- OpenWikitoolwatching
- DuckDBdatabasewatching
- paiddaily.io Postgresdatabaseapplied
- PostgreSQLdatabaseapplied
- Redisdatabasereference
- SQLitedatabasereference
04
5Projects
- Build Daily at builddaily.ioactive
- Ship Paid Daily — the desk for Aerodrome LP operators on Baseactive
- Ship Sage Daily — the daily practice, productizedactive
- Pi + qwen3.6 as backup when Claude Code limits hitrevised
- Build YearlyPhotos — the family photo calendar, AI-cleaned for printbuilding