Chandler Nguyen

June: $57.01.

I built an eval framework to grade my AI podcast pipeline across 40 real episodes in 7 languages.

I spent days crafting a system prompt for my AI podcast hosts.

The product I shipped in April was right about the engine.

I almost built a clever, AI-specific offline mode for DIALØGUE's iOS app.

I shipped DIALØGUE's iOS app as a port of the web product, then rebuilt it natively — three tabs, lock-screen audio, a synced transcript, resilient offline, and Siri — because a web app shrunk to a phone is still a web app.

TRANSMISSION served its purpose.

Publicis has agreed to acquire LiveRamp for about $2.2B.

I spent 6 months trying to become a game developer while keeping my day job.

I pushed what should have been an upgrade to my podcast platform's voice system.

Nineteen days after cancelling Claude Max, my pattern has settled.

People still message me asking if the 7 Andrew Ng courses I recommended in 2023 are the right path today.

Prova started feeling real to me when the product began making real promises about progression, billing, auth, and state.

I keep seeing AI tools pitch agencies on content volume.

I thought I could splice together one course module, trim a few transitions, and call it a YouTube video.

I cancelled Claude Max after 13 months and US$1,892.38 in subscription fees.

Two weeks after my original comparison, both tools shipped major updates.

Most conversations about AI and team design start with headcount.

DIALØGUE supports 7 languages, but the real multilingual work was not translating strings.

I spent years in advertising watching teams confuse motion with progress.

AI can now produce media plans, performance summaries, measurement frameworks, and campaign setups at impressive speed.

Most teams still ask which model to use.

In 2023, I thought generative AI would flood search with cheap content and reduce the return on SEO.

One person.

The narrative that AI replaces entry-level work misunderstands what entry-level people actually do.

After using Claude Code with Opus 4.6 daily for almost a year, I spent a week with Codex and GPT-5.4.

Two weeks ago I wrote "Still building.

493 blog posts across 17 years, translated into 10 languages, ~4,900 files, ~3.9 million words.

I'm building my first iOS app without knowing Swift.

I migrated my blog to Next.js and thought the hard part was over.

After visiting 26 national parks as an expat family, here's our honest guide — the 8 parks we'd revisit in a heartbeat, the ones that disappointed us, 4 road trip routes, and everything international visitors need to know in 2026.

From SSN delays to renting without credit, here's the relocation guide I wish I had before moving from Asia to the US.

From your first secured card to premium travel cards, here's the 4-stage system I'd use to earn rewards without getting sloppy.

How to buy T-bills, where to buy them, and when they beat a HYSA after state taxes if you live in California or another high-tax state.

From no file to 720+ in about a year, here's the roadmap I followed to build, protect, and use a US credit score as an expat.

The definitive 2026 guide to HSA, FSA, and HDHP for expats in the US—with updated IRS contribution limits, comparison tables, and practical tips from four years of navigating the system myself.

I migrated 485 WordPress posts to Next.js in 4 days using a plugin that taught Claude to think like a product manager—not just a code generator.

I built planning documents that taught Claude Code how to localize—not just translate—then watched it execute across 5 languages in parallel, turning literal phrases into native-sounding copy.

I rebuilt my podcast app in 14 days—a project that originally took 6 months.

I rebuilt my entire website in 3 days using AI—not as a coding assistant, but as my actual developer.

I built 9 AI agents that forgot everything between conversations—wasting users 20-45 minutes weekly re-explaining their business.

I shipped team collaboration features in alpha with <50 users because my customers were already working in teams—just through painful screenshots and copy-paste workarounds that cost 80+ hours per year.

I discovered my Postgres database had 89 foreign keys but zero indexes on them—turning millisecond queries into 843ms nightmares and nearly killing my alpha launch.

I found 31 blank screens in my SaaS—all because I forgot multi-tenancy isn't just about data access, it's about URL context.

I thought adding org_id to every table meant bulletproof multi-tenancy.

After 20 years in agencies, I knew multi-tenant architecture couldn't wait—so on Day 2, with just one working AI agent, I tripled my dev complexity to avoid a future rewrite.

I fed my own landing page to my AI strategy agent and rebuilt it in 24 hours—conversion messaging transformed by dogfooding the product I'm selling.

I built a 9-agent marketing platform in 75 days that learns from every conversation—tell one agent about your business, and all nine get smarter together.

I spent 24 hours debugging why my React app kept making HTTP requests from HTTPS pages—even though my code was converting them.

I built 3 AI marketing agents with multi-tenant architecture in 4 weeks—the same amount I accomplished in a month building my previous product that took 7 months to launch.