People to follow
Creators whose work shaped the way we think.
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Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher · YouTube
Software 3.0 talk + foundational ML lectures. The clearest articulation of the shift to natural-language programming.
Papers worth reading
Old and new. Most are short. All have outsized influence on what we ship.
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Naur 1985 · Programming as Theory Building
Peter Naur
Why your business lives in your team's heads, not your codebase. Foundational for understanding what AI agents actually need from us.
Tools we run
The stack we actually use, not the stack we wish we used.
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Claude Code
Anthropic
The terminal-based AI agent that the MaxShip methodology was developed inside. Most context-faithful tool we've tested.
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Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare
The runtime under every site we ship. D1, R2, KV, free tier generous enough to launch on, scales to millions for cents.
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Astro
Astro
The framework this site is built in. Static-first, component-friendly, fast by default. The right abstraction for content sites in 2026.