9 min read
The Small Model That Knows One Job
Tobi Lutke shared a tiny Shopify model beating a frontier model at one internal job. I wanted to know what that result really says, and whether the same idea is useful for PLAYGRND.
Field notes.
Practical notes from backend engineering and building products, plus occasional writing about business, family, and ambition.
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7 notes for “Infrastructure”
9 min read
Every Useful Agent Eventually Needs a Computer
I started with Grok Bot and ended up looking at the infrastructure underneath every agent that is allowed to do real work. Daytona is one of the more interesting bets, but this market will be won on trust, not demos.
12 min read
When an HTTP Request Starts Carrying Money
What x402, Coinbase, Cloudflare, and always-on agents such as Grok Bot reveal about the next payment layer of the internet - and where Bitcoin fits.
13 min read
How I Think About Asymmetric Bets
A personal framework for finding durable upside in technology, from steam and electricity to language models, AI agents, Bitcoin, and whatever comes next.
11 min read
How Far Can One Hetzner Server Go?
A concrete capacity model for a one-server Hetzner setup: what breaks first, which metrics matter, and what I would build next on the path to 10 million users.
15 min read
When One Server Is Not Enough
A practical follow-up to the one-server setup: what I would do when a small app turns into a real business and the server starts running out of room.
11 min read
How I'd Run a One-Person Internet Company on One Server
A technical manual for running a one-person internet company on Hetzner with Cloudflare, Caddy, PostgreSQL, Redis, systemd, GitHub Actions CI/CD, R2 backups, mobile Codex operations, and resource limits.