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I Automated My Entire Digital Product Business on a $13/Month GCP VM. Here's the Architecture.

Three weeks ago I set up a loop on a $13/month GCP VM and went to sleep. By morning it had built, packaged, and queued Claude Code development guides for Gumroad. Autonomously. While respecting a set of rules I call OPERATOR.md. This is the writeup: architecture, what worked, what surprised me, and the hard constraints that kept it from going sideways. I had a pile of Claude Code config work I'd done across projects. Hooks, CLAUDE.md patterns, MCP server setups, workflow playbooks. Useful stuff

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Beginner's Mind in Engineering and AI

The engineering world revolves around expertise. We are looking up to people who know stuff or can do things. And for a good reason. Those are the people who can figure things out, build cool tools, and share their knowledge. We are all better off because these people are around. But there is a darker side to the expertise. All the years of school, experience, time spent on honing one's skills, create invisible walls in expert's mind. Deeply learned patters, preferences, rules, the dos and the d

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How I use AI agents to turn ideas into public demos

This is my first DEV Community note about my own AI-assisted creator workflow. My name is Nikita Kizevich. I also publish as Mikita Kizevich, AI_Nikitka93 and Nikitka AI. I work across AI-generated photography, AI video, music, and AI-assisted software prototypes. The core workflow is simple: Start with an idea and a real target user. Describe the product flow and constraints to an AI coding agent. Run the result locally or in a browser. Read the logs and browser behavior. Send concrete failures

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I Built a Quotation Generator for Kenyan Street Welders Using Gemma 4's Vision

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 A customer walks up to a welder in Nairobi with a Pinterest screenshot. "I want this gate. How much?" The welder squints at the phone. Does mental math. Guesses a number. Scribbles it on a scrap of cardboard. No material breakdown. No line items. The customer walks away and finds someone who looks more professional. This happens thousands of times a day across Kenya's jua kali sector. "Jua kali" translates to "hot sun." It's what

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The Math Behind Neural Networks — Explained Like Nobody Did for Me 🧨

How does a neural network actually learn to be less wrong? Not the hand-wavy version. The real one. The one with the derivative, the chain rule, and the loss surface that nobody draws for you when you start. I got tired of tutorials that skip steps, so I wrote the series I wish I had when I began. No formula without explanation. No "as you can see." No magic. It is now live on GoPenAI — and I am sharing it here on dev.to for the first time. Part 1 — Where the math actually begins https://blog.go

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Understanding TPC with IEEE802.11h

Introduction While studying for CompTIA Network+, I couldn't imagine how TPC worked. I could memorize that TPC stands for Transmit Power Control, but I couldn't comprehend why it was needed or how it actually worked. TPC stands for Transmit Power Control automatically adjusts transmission power for Wi-Fi. If transmission power is too strong： 　→ Radio waves spread further than necessary 　→ Interfere with adjacent access point 　→ Increase power consumption in vain 　→ Radio wave end up reaching t

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What I’m Starting to Look for in Engineers

I think AI is starting to fundamentally change what strong engineering looks like. And honestly, I don’t think the biggest shift is coding speed. It’s ownership. Because writing code is becoming dramatically cheaper. But deeply understanding the problem, the customer, the tradeoffs, the scope, and whether something actually creates value is becoming dramatically more important. So when I think about engineers today, I increasingly look for people who operate more like mini product owners or mini

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