Essays
Essays
POV writing on AI, building businesses, captain mindset. The lens we operate through, written down. Slower-changing than Field Reports, more opinionated than Mental Frameworks.
All essays
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The Captain and the Agents · HITL 2.0
Captain stays at the wheel. Agents are subject matter experts, not autopilot. Why the language matters and what HITL 2.0 actually means.
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Great Context, Great Output
The principle underneath every Command discipline. Bad context yields bad output, every single time. The leverage isn't in prompt engineering — it's in what comes before.
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Programming as Theory Building · Naur 1985
Peter Naur wrote the most important essay in operator history that nobody operating reads. Forty years later, it's the foundation under everything MaxShip teaches.