2025
How to Reign In Your Coding Agent
Everyone’s hyped about AI coding agents. Big tech says they’re replacing engineers. Solo founders claim they’ve built entire startups with a prompt. But if you’ve tried to use one on a real project, you’ve probably realized: it’s messy. This post explores how to make it less so - by giving your agent just enough structure to be useful.
What We’re Rethinking in the Age of AI: Product, Workflow, and Scale
When we started Midstay in 2021, we were building a B2C social app for digital nomads and remote workers. Like many early-stage startups, we kept our tech stack lean and focused on moving fast. Our workflow was fairly pragmatic and conventional: Figma for design, Notion for planning, Heroku for deployment, and Tailwind with Flowbite to build our Ruby on Rails UIs quickly. It worked well, and for a team of our size, we were reasonably productive.
The Burnout of the Ambitious Nomad
This weekend I’ve been sensing a burnout coming. It happens every other month if I take too much on, and at the same time have unforeseen stressful events coming up. This time it started building up while I was travelling to Bali. It made me think about digital nomadism, as I was working full time on the trip. Thankfully, I’ve gotten a lot better at responding to this when it comes up, and hopefully I will manage this time as well.
Start with Traffic, Not a Product: A Smarter Way to Build?
After years of focusing solely on my main business Midstay, I recently started exploring some side projects again. Partly to hedge my current business, but also to test new ideas, tools, and services within the AI space.
What Happens When You Don’t Own Your Life—And When You Finally Do
For as long as I can remember, I’ve struggled to put myself out there and express myself in public. This has been the case in my personal life, e.g. when being around a lot of people, I’ve tended to mute myself and let others take the stage. However, it has severely affected my professional life too. While I know I have a strong background and capacity, I haven’t been able to take advantage of it due to my lack of self-confidence and public presence. The last year or two, I’ve come to some important realizations around where this behavior comes from, and this has finally started to set me on a new course. These realizations are also what has given birth to this blog, which previously would have been unthinkable.