> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mint.skeptrune.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Skeptrune: Writing on AI, startups, and engineering

> Nick Khami's blog on AI coding agents, startup building, and engineering. Posts from a YC founder and Engineering Manager at Mintlify.

Hey, I'm Nick Khami — an Engineering Manager at [Mintlify](https://www.mintlify.com/), where I joined after they acquired [Trieve](https://trieve.ai/), the search API company I founded. Before that I went through Y Combinator, worked at NelNet Payment Services, and built several startups. I write about the things I learn along the way: AI coding agents, startup marketing, infrastructure, and how to do good work.

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  <Card title="AI & Agents" icon="robot" href="/posts/prompting-the-agent-loop">
    Deep dives on coding agents, LLMs, and how to get more out of AI tools
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  <Card title="Startups & Marketing" icon="rocket" href="/posts/startup-marketing-101">
    Lessons learned building and marketing early-stage startups
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  <Card title="Engineering" icon="server" href="/posts/wildcard-tls-multi-tenant">
    Infrastructure tutorials, VPS setups, and multi-tenant systems
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  <Card title="Work & Management" icon="briefcase" href="/posts/todolist-standup">
    Async work practices, management lessons, and how I think about teams
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## Featured posts

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  <Card title="Startup Marketing 101" icon="bullhorn" href="/posts/startup-marketing-101">
    What I wish I knew about marketing as a first-time founder
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  <Card title="Prompt the Agent Loop" icon="arrows-spin" href="/posts/prompting-the-agent-loop">
    How to prompt coding agents to actually finish tasks
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  <Card title="Git Worktrees + Agents + Tmux" icon="code-branch" href="/posts/git-worktrees-agents-and-tmux">
    Parallelize AI coding agents for dramatically higher throughput
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  <Card title="Replace Standup with a Todo List" icon="list-check" href="/posts/todolist-standup">
    A better async standup approach for engineering teams
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## About Nick

I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022, concentrating in machine learning and doing undergraduate research on GANs. I've been through Y Combinator and FUTO's programs. My favorite hobbies are reading and riding motorcycles. Right to repair and open source matter to me.

You can find me on [X / Twitter](https://x.com/skeptrune), [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/skeptrune.bsky.social), [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/nkhami), and [GitHub](https://github.com/skeptrunedev).

## Featured projects

* **[Trieve](https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve)** — All-in-one platform for search, recommendations, RAG, and analytics offered via API
* **[Jukebox](https://github.com/skeptrunedev/jukebox)** — Open source alternative to Spotify Collaborative Playlists
* **[Patron](https://github.com/patroninc/patron)** — Open source alternative to Patreon focused on serialized content