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Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · August 28, 2026 · 16 min read

How to manage an AI-built app when you cannot code

A practical founder guide to knowing what Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI has built, what still needs checking, and what your agent should do next. Includes prompts for progress reviews, project memory, scope control, and handoffs.

Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · September 5, 2026 · 10 min read

Your AI coding agent forgot the project: how to recover context

A founder workflow for recovering approved decisions, unfinished work, and verification evidence when a new Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI session seems to start from scratch.

Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · September 13, 2026 · 10 min read

Your AI agent fixes one bug and breaks another: a founder repair workflow

How to turn repeated AI coding fixes into a reproducible investigation, a bounded repair, and evidence you can review without reading every line of code.

Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · September 21, 2026 · 10 min read

How to stop your AI coding agent from building the wrong product

A founder guide to keeping AI coding work aligned with the customer problem, separating prerequisites from optional ideas, and reviewing changes before the release grows.

Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · September 29, 2026 · 10 min read

How to switch AI coding agents without losing your project

A practical project handoff for founders moving between Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI: preserve scope, unfinished changes, verification, and the next action.

Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · August 4, 2026 · 9 min read

Who can build a product with AI coding agents without being a developer?

A practical fit check for non-coding founders: what you need to own, where an agent can help, and when the project needs technical expertise beyond prompting.

Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · August 12, 2026 · 9 min read

Why AI coding still needs a founder to manage the product

When an agent can produce code, the founder’s job becomes making the goal, decisions, and evidence clear. Here is a practical way to manage that responsibility without reading every implementation detail.

Founder guidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · August 20, 2026 · 9 min read

Why now is a useful time for non-coding founders to test a product idea

Coding agents make a practical experiment possible: describe one customer outcome, inspect the result, and learn whether to continue. Here is how to use that opportunity without confusing a prototype with a business.

ResearchBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · July 9, 2026 · 7 min read

Why AI Coding Agents Fail Without Product Memory

Two recent studies looked at tens of thousands of pull requests written by coding agents. The pattern is uncomfortable: agents can produce code quickly, but they still lose context, take on work nobody wanted, and hand reviewers changes that are too broad to trust.

ProductBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · July 2, 2026 · 6 min read

Product Management Memory for AI Agent Teams

Your roadmap may be in Notion while your agents work from chat. Product management memory is the small, durable record that keeps goals, tasks, and decisions consistent between the two.

GuidesBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · June 25, 2026 · 7 min read

How to Give Claude Code Persistent Project Memory

A strong Claude Code session can still leave the next session guessing. Here is a practical way to keep product decisions, task ownership, and verification outside the chat transcript.

LaunchBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · June 18, 2026 · 8 min read

Launch Checklist for AI-Built Apps in 2026

A launch checklist is only useful when every check points to evidence. This is the short list I use to separate “the agent said done” from work I would actually release.

HandoffBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · June 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Developer Handoff Without Two Weeks of Discovery

When a freelancer leaves or you hire your first engineer, product memory beats Slack threads and git blame.

ProductBy Ville Ylläsjärvi · June 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Why AI Agent Sessions Forget Your Product (And What to Do About It)

Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code start from different sessions. The fix is not a longer prompt; it is a small project record that survives all three.

RAAV blog — Product memory for coding agents