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buildpilots

@kingli·USA·Joined July 2026

Building production SaaS on Cloudflare Workers

About

Building BuildPilots, a fully serverless SaaS platform powered by Cloudflare Workers.

Tech stack: Auth.js OAuth, Stripe subscriptions, Resend transactional email.
I write about edge computing, indie SaaS development and common production pitfalls.

Website: https://buildpilots.net

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Open for technical discussions, indie SaaS exchange.

buildpilots's blogs

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Agent Memory Drift: The Silent Degradation That Breaks Long-Running Agents
our agent works beautifully on the first run. It follows instructions, retrieves context, completes the workflow, and logs results cleanly.
Run it 10 times. Run it 50 times. Something subtle starts to

Comment Oct 16 · 5 min read buildpilots.hashnode.dev

[RAG for Solo Engineers: How to build lightweight private RAG without expensive vector DBs
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If you’re a solo engineer building AI features for your SaaS, you’ve probably been told the same thing:

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Comment Oct 14 · 6 min read buildpilots.hashnode.dev

It’s Not About Code Generation — AI Agents Force Us To Reimagine Team Workflows
For engineering leaders and solo founders, AI coding agents are not merely a productivity hack for individual developers. They are an organizational force multiplier, one that quietly rewrites how tea

Comment Oct 12 · 5 min read buildpilots.hashnode.dev

The Hidden Cost of Building “General‑Purpose” Internal Developer Platforms
Building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) has become a fashionable priority for mid‑to‑large engineering organisations. Every conference talk and blog post tells us: standardise workflows, abstrac

Comment Oct 8 · 3 min read buildpilots.hashnode.dev

The Hidden Costs of Context Window Bloat: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better in Production LLMs
The race for larger context windows has become one of the loudest signals in modern AI. Every few weeks, a new model arrives advertising 1M, 2M, or even 4M tokens of context — and engineering teams of

Comment Sep 28 · 4 min read buildpilots.hashnode.dev