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            <title><![CDATA[From the Lathe to the CNC: How I Build Software with a Fleet of AI Agents]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I plan and curate the work during working hours. A fleet of AI coding agents does most of the coding, around the clock. My job is to confirm, send back, and refine until the result matches the spec.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 22: My Son Turns 13]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A different kind of weekly post. My son turned 13, and I wrote about the entrepreneurs I grew up around and the principles I hope he picks up.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 21: A Project I Am Not Showing Yet]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The week went into a project built on Klau that is already running part of a real hauling operation. I am keeping it quiet for now, and looking for haulers who want to adopt a system as it is built.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Org Alignment]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For years I filled out a forced-ranking spreadsheet called Org Alignment. The people were good. The structure was built to extract, and it is why I build the way I do now.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 20: A Chrome Extension for Legacy Systems]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For legacy vendors without integrations, I am building a Chrome extension that brings Klau tools into their web screens. Also, a week of honest posting about the past.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Layoff Labeled Transformation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Years ago I was in leadership during a layoff called a transformation, and flew in days later to work with the team it hit. It is why I plan to wrap my projects in a public benefit corporation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 19: Why a Public Benefit Corporation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I spent the week thinking about the public benefit corporation structure, and why I want its charter and duties to protect Klau's customers long after I stop running it.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 18: Big Sur and a Public Benefit Corporation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A camping trip in Big Sur, a podcast with Eric Ries, and a settled answer to how Klau will be structured: as a public benefit corporation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 17: A Quiet Week by Design]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I barely worked on Klau this week, and the pilots kept running. That is the kind of business I want to build.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 16: Trail Work and Live Loads]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I spent Earth Day doing trail work instead of shopping. On the Klau side, I fixed how dispatch keeps one driver on a live load from start to finish.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 15: Not for Sale]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A prospect asked what happens to the founding member deal if Klau is acquired. My answer: acquisition is not the goal. I want Klau to be a company that can be passed on.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 14: The Dispatch Exchange]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A hauler needed Klau to dispatch jobs from files in an SFTP folder. That one customer need became the Dispatch Exchange, available to every Klau user.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 13: The Klau CLI]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Many haulers run legacy systems with no modern API. The Klau CLI lets them point Klau at a folder and start dispatching.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 12: A Driver App]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Klau was meant to sit on top of what haulers already run. After months of hearing that their driver tools fall short, I built a thin driver app that learns each driver's routine.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 11: 60 Commits, No New Features]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An enterprise pilot surfaced hardcoded assumptions and time zone issues. I fixed those, merged the job creation paths into one service, and stopped a runaway AI cost.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 10: The Lindy Effect]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A calm week with two paying customers, bug reports from real users, and a change to the dispatch optimizer that lets it handle large fleets.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 9: An Onboarding Checklist]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[New haulers now get a checklist that walks them through setup. Conversations this week showed where Klau fits for haulers who already take orders online.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 8: Klau Is a Teammate]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Eight weeks in, I can put the idea behind Klau into words: you onboard it like a person. I recorded an 18-minute overview of everything built so far.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 7: A Self-Service Ordering Storefront]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dispatching was the groundwork. The product is a self-service ordering storefront for roll-off companies, with pricing, payments, and dispatch handled behind it.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Launch Note: Klau Coaching Is Live]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Klau Coaching is open for sign-ups at $49 a month. Upload your dispatched work and Klau scores each day and shows where time was lost.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 6: A Dispatch Scorecard for Coaching]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The dispatch scorecard is now a coaching tool inside Klau. It scores human-dispatched days and drivers and shows what Klau would have done instead.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 5: King of the Hammers with Grant]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A short week. I took my son Grant to King of the Hammers, the off-road race in the desert, and came home refreshed.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 4: A Scorecard Tool]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Two more demos, a simpler pricing model in progress, and a new scorecard tool that measures what a day of dispatched jobs could save.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 3: First Demo and Pricing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The first real demo, what Klau is and is not, pricing based on jobs optimized, and an offer for 10 founding members.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Klau in the Open, Week 2: Learning From the Gaps]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One week after announcing Klau, two conversations led to disposal costs in routing and a new way to think about onboarding dispatchers.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing Klau]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After years of solving logistics problems for others, I am building Klau, dispatch software for roll-off haulers.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How We Are Building Klau]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Klau is a dispatch and operations platform for haulers. It works alongside the systems they already use. This is how we built its foundation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holiday Phone Safety Guide: What to Tell Your Parents About Scams and Subscriptions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A simple guide to share with older parents this Thanksgiving. Covers phone scams, fake virus warnings, and how to find hidden subscriptions.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Lifestyle Software in Unglamorous Industries: Lessons from a Decade in Waste]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What a decade in waste management taught me about building a small, profitable software business in an overlooked industry.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Faster Customer Lookups for Hauler CSRs with HaulerPhone]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Finding the right account when a customer calls can be slow for waste hauler CSRs. HaulerPhone shows the caller's account when the call comes in, with AI call transcripts planned for a later release.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pausing Weighven to Build HaulerPhone, a Caller Dashboard for Haulers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[HaulerPhone shows waste hauler customer service reps who is calling and which accounts they have. It starts at $49/month, works alongside existing systems, and is planned to launch in September 2025.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Weighven: A Scale House Interface in Three Days]]></title>
            <link>https://edisoncode.com/articles/building-weighven-era-of-abundance-for-waste-tech/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Three days ago, Weighven was an idea. Today the frontend runs on desktop, tablet, and phone. The backend is next. Here is what I built and what I learned.]]></description>
            <author>jed@edisoncode.com (Jed Dawson)</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Let's Build Together: Edison Code's Micro-SaaS Approach]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After nearly two decades in the waste industry, I'm restarting Edison Code. I want to hear about the problems you face and build small, focused tools for them.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Survivorship Bias and the Constraints That Matter]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why building for independent haulers means looking past easy metrics and working within their real constraints.]]></description>
            <author>jed@edisoncode.com (Jed Dawson)</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Waste Industry Deserves Better Software]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Waste touches every household and business, but the software that runs it is still behind. Here is why I care about closing that gap.]]></description>
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