Nathan Kahle ยท Support Ops, Internal Tools & Applied SystemsSupport Operations at Shopify. Building internal tools, tinkering with applied AI, father, Magic: The Gathering nerd, and Steelers fan.https://nathankahle.com/The Modern AI Stack: Why Your LLM is Just a Compute Kernelhttps://nathankahle.com/blog/modern-ai-system-stack/https://nathankahle.com/blog/modern-ai-system-stack/Chatbots are 2023. In 2026, serious AI engineering treats models as probabilistic execution units wrapped inside deterministic operating systems.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTIntent-Driven Design: Compiling Outcomes Down to Running Bitshttps://nathankahle.com/blog/intent-driven-design/https://nathankahle.com/blog/intent-driven-design/Stop designing visual button states in a vacuum. When AI can generate infinite boilerplate, the declarative specification is your actual executable.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Barrier to Entry is Zero. The Filter is Taste.https://nathankahle.com/blog/barrier-to-entry-is-zero/https://nathankahle.com/blog/barrier-to-entry-is-zero/Anyone with an internet connection and an API key can stand up a distributed system in an afternoon. When code is free, the only moat left is curation and taste.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStop Vibe-Checking Prompts: Evals Are Your Unit Tests Nowhttps://nathankahle.com/blog/evals-are-the-new-unit-tests/https://nathankahle.com/blog/evals-are-the-new-unit-tests/Tweaking system prompts at 2 AM without a benchmark harness is just superstitious typing. Here is how to build deterministic eval suites that keep AI pipelines honest.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Mech Suit Developer: Why 2-Person Teams Are Outshipping 50-Person Orgshttps://nathankahle.com/blog/rise-of-the-one-person-software-company/https://nathankahle.com/blog/rise-of-the-one-person-software-company/Large engineering organizations are suffocating under quadratic coordination overhead. Small, agentic teams in digital mech suits are quietly running circles around them.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTOne page, or it doesn't starthttps://nathankahle.com/blog/one-page-or-it-doesnt-start/https://nathankahle.com/blog/one-page-or-it-doesnt-start/An internal project or tool that cannot be described on one page is not ready to be built.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWrite the README before the buildhttps://nathankahle.com/blog/readme-before-the-build/https://nathankahle.com/blog/readme-before-the-build/If the first screen of a project cannot explain itself, the project is not designed yet.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT