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Every pillar post on the ShayanSpiel blog. Newest first.
Is GLM-5.2 Cheaper Than the Frontier?
A working breakdown of LLM API pricing across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Z.ai, at every reasoning effort. Where the popular claim breaks down, where...
Why Every Technical Founder Needs a Content Pipeline, Not a Content Strategy
Content strategy is the wrong abstraction for builders. You don't need a plan. You need a system that turns building into publishing.
Your Engineering Decisions Are Already Content
The things you build, the decisions you make, the tradeoffs you navigate, that is not just work. That is content waiting to be published....
3 Things Shipped to Spiel OS This Week
Spiel OS is a pipeline that turns a build session into a publishable post. The gap that kept showing up was not the writing....
AI Content Pipelines Need Quality Gates, Not Just Better Models
Why AI content automation fails without quality gates, and the handoff pattern that keeps automated content pipelines producing work that sounds human.
How a Developer Content Pipeline Maps Build Sessions to Blog Posts
5-document developer content pipeline that converts build sessions to LinkedIn, X, and blog drafts in 2 minutes of capture. No blank pages, no editorial...
Positioning Is Not a Copy Change. It Is a System State
You updated your bio. Your system didn't. Here is why your old positioning is still running in files you forgot existed, and how to...
You Don't Need to Learn Marketing. You Need a Content Pipeline for Developers
Stop treating content as a separate job. Learn how a content pipeline for developers removes the identity switch between building and publishing.
How I Built a Developer Content Pipeline in 72 Hours
A developer content pipeline workflow built in 72 hours. 4 blog posts, 3 LinkedIn posts, 2 state machines, ~85 queue drafts. One system that...
Session as Content: Automate Building in Public
Learn build in public automation with the Session-as-Content methodology. Turn work sessions into published content without switching from builder to creator.
Spiel OS is Now Open Source: An AI Writing Pipeline for Builders
An open-source AI writing pipeline that turns build sessions into publishable content. 4 files, 2 loops, 19 commands, MIT licensed. Clone it, run it,...
From Declarative Rules To Agentic Loops
Why your LLM agents ignore half your rules. Learn the agentic AI workflow architecture that replaces fragile prompts with state-machine loops that actually work....
How I Rebuilt My Blog in 4 Hours With a Jekyll Automation Pipeline
A Jekyll blog automation pipeline that turns vault drafts into live posts with one command. From empty demo to brand blog with 2 posts...
How I Automated My Content Pipeline With an AI Second Brain
Build an AI content pipeline for developers that turns build sessions into publishable drafts. Open-source, 4 files, runs from your terminal.