LaurenOutLoud

// Accidental PM | Former Theater Owner | Adventures in Pretending to Know What I'm Doing
lauren@terminal:~$
$ ls blog/
$ grep -i "search" blog/*.md
// Use Ctrl+F to search this page
>how-to-build-your-own-health-agent.md// Three nutrition and health agents, one per family member — what an agent actually is, and how to run one in the cloud or fully local.
>my-build-buy-or-skip-rules-for-mcps.md// Build, buy, or skip — the four questions I ask before wiring up another MCP bridge
>skip-the-subscription-and-build-a-tts-pipeline.md// Stop paying monthly for text-to-speech. Kokoro-82M runs on a CPU, sounds like ElevenLabs, and is free.
>i-ran-my-first-lora-experiment-and-made-the-ai-stupid.md// I fine-tuned a 1.5B model to replace gemma 27b on one narrow task. Training loss looked great. Eval told a different story.
>a-beginners-guide-to-building-a-weekly-digest.md// I built my kid a weekly personalized philosophy digest because he asked. Here's the template you can fork.
>i-dont-need-meal-planning.md// Why building a meal planner was the wrong fix — and what I built instead
>two-claudes-one-slack-channel.md// How I stopped two Claudes from drifting out of sync using a single Slack channel.
>bot-fraud-manual-detection-system-worked.md// A fraud wave, a paranoid Sunday, and why manual detection isn't a system
>i-counted-my-mcp-tools-and-well-yikes.md// 150 MCP tools were silently eating half my context window — an audit, a cull, and two custom servers later
>my-ai-handles-ops-so-i-dont-have-to.md// Why I built a nightly ops agent instead of a self-reflection loop
>playing-games.md// I built a pixel art game to celebrate my team. Here's why.
>your-ai-skills-are-rotting.md// You collect skills but are you using them? Let's find out.
>stop-letting-your-ai-coding-sessions-die.md// A simple habit to stop losing context between AI coding sessions
>why-yes-i-ab-tested-ai-agent-frameworks.md// What running two AI agent frameworks taught me about architecture
>skills-dashboards.md// When the obvious path is blocked, product thinking finds the side door.
>warp-is-good-turned-off-ai-still-good.md// A product person's take on Warp terminal — no AI required
>i-asked-an-ai-to-describe-how-our-company-actually-works.md// What a year of meeting transcripts revealed about how decisions really get made
>your-meeting-transcripts-dont-need-to-leave-your-laptop.md// Transcription meets privacy
>take-your-product-and-sunset-it.md// What it actually costs to kill a product your team built
>automating-my-writing-pipeline.md// I built a content pipeline that mines 41 weekly meeting transcripts for stories worth telling
>ai-made-building-easier-but-engineering-harder.md// AI made building easier, but engineering harder
>lead-gen-github-actions.md// I Built a Lead Generation Solution with GitHub Actions
>i-want-metrics-said-the-gm.md// "I want metrics," said the GM
>metaphor-generator.md// The Metaphor Generator Nobody Asked For
>i-spent-three-weeks-obsessing.md// I Spent Three Weeks Obsessing When, In Fact, I Was Measuring the Wrong Thing
>building-my-first-mcp.md// Building My First MCP
>building-my-first-claude-skill.md// Building My First Claude Skill
>show-dont-tell-isnt-just-for-improv.md// Show Don't Tell Isn't Just for Improv
>i-got-tired-of-scrolling.md// I Got Tired of Scrolling, So I Shipped Code Instead
>your-non-technical-role-plus-cursor.md// Supercharge Your Non-Technical Role with Cursor
>stop-theorizing-start-building.md// Stop Theorizing, Start Building
>welp-head-of-product-now.md// Adventures in pretending to know what I'm doing
>an-accidentalpm-year-of-milestones.md// An Accidental PM's Year of Miles and Milestones
>make-things-up.md// Making It Up at Scale: From Theater to Funded Tech
>comfort-and-chaos.md// Comfort with Chaos: Improv Wisdom for AI Adoption
>unconventional-journey.md// I Always Wanted to be a Doctor, Librarian, Performer, oops, I became a Product Manager
>guide-to-scaling-yourself.md// A Product Manager's Guide to Scaling Yourself
>ai-and-librarians.md// LLMs: A Librarian's Revenge
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