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Sprint 7
Becoming AI-Native
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ISSUE 01 · MAY 4, 2026
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14 wks
Launch
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Weekly
Publish
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Biweek
Sync
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2 tracks
KR · EN
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Hi — this is Sprint 7.
First letter, heading out today.
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Why we started this
"Using AI well" has become a pretty tired phrase, hasn't it?
Opening ChatGPT every day isn't really the same as being good at it. Keeping AI on hand and redesigning your work assuming AI is always there — these two are completely different things, and we keep being reminded of that.
If you can't see the difference now, the gap probably shows up a year later. Not in one report — in the whole shape of how you work.
So we made a call: let's share the learning while we're still figuring it out, not some polished version after the fact.
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Three things we're committing to
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Honest, not polished
We'll log where we got stuck, what failed, and what we tried next. Wandering teaches a lot more than a tidy conclusion does.
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Together, not solo
We meet biweekly to compare notes and pull out the week's insight. It's the group's pace that becomes the content, not any one voice.
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A loop, not an event
14 weeks is just the start. The newsletter, blog, and community keep running well after that.
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How it works
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RHYTHM
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Biweekly Wednesdays, 6:30 PM ET · NYC (remote-friendly)
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OUTPUT
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One bundle per week — newsletter + 1–2 blog posts + social + trend summary
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CHANNEL
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Korean (Newsletter · Naver · Tistory) + English (this letter, Medium, LinkedIn, X, Threads, IG)
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The rhythm is what defines us. Weekly publishing, biweekly meetings. That's pretty much it.
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What we ran into, week one
We said we'd share the learning as it happens — so here's the actual first week.
People came in from all kinds of corners: planning, design, creative, marketing, HR, finance, engineering. Each of us was already navigating our own work, and somewhere along the way AI tools had quietly slipped into a lot of what we do day to day.
But none of that is enough to actually call it AI-native, and we knew it. So we went deeper — to see how far you can get when you rebuild the work itself around AI.
Two walls showed up, one after the other.
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WALL 01 · THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ONE
Spending badly before you even know where you're going
Not "I don't want to pay" — more like "what if I burn through everything before I figure out the direction?" That feeling arrived before we'd even picked a tool.
Right now, Sprint 7 is in the Claude Code chapter — one tool, deep. The multi-tool comparison is on the list for later.
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WALL 02 · COST STRUCTURE
The first technical wall isn't the code
Free-tier database resources that evaporate after a week of inactivity. Third-party API pricing that doesn't show itself until you're mid-build. Output tokens that cost more than input — a fact nobody surfaces until you see the bill.
Sprint 7 hit versions of this same wall independently, across different projects, within the same week.
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What happened next is the interesting part. Once you understand the cost structure, your approach starts to shift. You route around expensive APIs with a free crawl. You move to an on-device model. You rethink how context flows through the prompt. The friction quietly becomes the curriculum.
That's what we're putting on record — not polished conclusions, but the specific places where beginners actually get stopped.
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To you, who opened this
Now is the best starting point — really. We'll make the case for that every week.
If a colleague's stuck on the same wall, feel free to forward this. Learning moves fastest when someone else's view sits right next to yours.
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📬 Next issue: Monday May 11, 08:00 ET
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— Sprint 7
A public-learning working group · May 4 – July 12, 2026 (and continuing after)
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