Tony Lee
AI product strategist, co-founder of Smoretalk, and writer covering AI agents, startup strategy, and the systems behind modern developer workflows.
This page exists to give search engines and readers a stable author entity behind the archive. Tony Lee writes about AI agents, product strategy, context engineering, and the operational playbooks that shape high-leverage software teams.
The goal of the blog is not diary-style posting. It is to publish clear, opinionated analysis that can travel through search, social, and machine-readable surfaces without losing the original point of view.
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