The most repeated advice about AI code is to review it like a junior's PR. Naur explained in 1985 why that is not enough: reviewing gives you recognition, writing gives you the theory, and the bug lives in the gap.

iCloud Drive was a deliberate shortcut to prove the CRDT converges across real devices before I solved networking. Proof done, I swapped the file-pusher for a real network. This is how outl now syncs every client peer-to-peer over QUIC, with no server and no Apple, and the parts of 'peer-to-peer' the brochures skip.

I had an exit and chose to be someone else's CTO for longer than I ran my own company. Founding was never about owning the company.

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