Archive - Zero to SaaS

What Chinese Factories Taught Me About Prompting Claude Code

Anything you don't specify will be done at minimum cost

Mar 3 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

Claude Code Has Been Navigating Your Codebase Like a Tourist With No Map

Your IDE solved this in 2016. Here's how to give the same fix to your agent.

Mar 2 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

February 2026

Why Your MCP Server Will Die in Obscurity

The reason Claude ignores your MCP server has nothing to do with your code.

Feb 26 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

While You Panic About AI Taking Jobs, I Built $200/Mo Tools

I eliminated $200/month in AI subscriptions by building Claude Code skills. Same AI, zero recurring cost. Here's what I built and how you can too.

Feb 18 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

How to Escape the SRE Meeting-Industrial Complex

How to reclaim your brain from the meeting-industrial complex

Feb 11 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

The Real SaaS Moat AI Can't Replicate

SaaS moats were never about code — they were about standing between users and git. LLMs do the same thing for free. Here's what actually survives.

Feb 9 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

Open Source Is Starving While AI Makes Coding Free

The Open Source Crisis Nobody's Talking About

Feb 3 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

Your Redis Is Probably Naked Right Now

A solo dev security horror story with a very short checklist

Feb 2 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

January 2026

What Happens When You Let 6 AI Agents Write Code at the Same Time

A field report from the bleeding edge of AI-assisted development

Jan 29 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

Software Engineering Is Dead, or Is It?

The boring stuff was load-bearing all along.

Jan 27 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

The AI Productivity Paradox: Why I'm Working More Than Ever

I get more done in a day than I used to in a week. I've also never been this tired.

Jan 26 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

I Built 2 SaaS Products Vibe Coding. Here's the System That Made It Work.

Context hygiene, mise en place, and why your wife is always right.

Jan 24 • Lakshmi Narasimhan

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