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I Killed My OpenClaw Agent After 4 Months. Here's the Real Reason.
Everyone's migrating from OpenClaw to Hermes Agent for the memory and learning loop. The real reason I switched is one most people miss. Here's what actually matters.
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Mykyta Pavlenko • June 5, 2026
Opus 4.7 Is the Best Model I’ve Used. It’s Also the One I Trust Least.
Opus 4.7 beats every benchmark. But Anthropic quietly removed the one thing serious builders needed - predictable control. Here’s what Default Drift means.
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Mykyta Pavlenko • April 16, 2026
Who Owns Your AI Memory? Because It Probably Isn’t You.
I spent three years feeding ChatGPT context. Then I realized the memory it built wasn’t mine. So I took it back - with a vector DB on a Mac Mini.
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Mykyta Pavlenko • April 14, 2026
Vibe Coding Won’t Save You. This PM Skill Will.
Vibe coding is everywhere, but most PMs use it wrong. A Senior PM building an AI product shares the one skill that actually matters - and it’s not prompting.
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Mykyta Pavlenko • April 7, 2026
Your Competitors Are Laughing at You. Good.
Why the best products start as jokes - and how to find the market nobody’s fighting for
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Mykyta Pavlenko • March 31, 2026
PMs Don’t Manage Backlogs Anymore. They Manage AI Agents.
73% of PMs use AI tools daily. But most use them wrong. Here’s the framework for leading AI agents instead of blindly following them — from a PM building an AI product.
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Mykyta Pavlenko • March 24, 2026
I'm Not a Developer. I Built an AI Product in 2 Months. Here's My Entire $150/Month AI Stack.
The exact AI workflow behind building Temporal.day from scratch.
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Mykyta Pavlenko • March 22, 2026
A B O U T M E
Who Is Mykyta Pavlenko?
Just a human obsessed with building.
Hey, I'm Mykyta.
Product manager by trade, builder by obsession. 5+ years in telecom and travel-tech — from intern to senior PM. Now building my own AI products and writing about the process.
I write about product management, building from zero, and using AI in practice — not theory, just what actually works.