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Notes from the build.

Lessons from shipping applied AI: what worked, what broke, and what changed after the second time it broke.

How I Set Up My MacBook for AI Engineering in 2026Outline
A minimal, opinionated setup for building applied AI: Homebrew, Cursor, Claude API, Docker, Node, Python, pyenv — and the defaults I changed.
May 3, 2026

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