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        <title>Kent Salcedo | Field Notes</title>
        <link>https://kent-personal-site-v1.vercel.app</link>
        <description>Honolulu-based founding engineer and builder-first CTO helping founders and teams turn 0→1 products, AI workflows, and messy requirements into software that ships.</description>
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          <title>Shipping the messy first version</title>
          <link>https://kent-personal-site-v1.vercel.app/notes/shipping-the-messy-first-version</link>
          <description>Why the first version of a product should be useful, not perfect, and how to know when you've shipped enough.</description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>AI automation without the science experiment</title>
          <link>https://kent-personal-site-v1.vercel.app/notes/ai-automation-without-the-science-experiment</link>
          <description>Practical guidance for teams adopting AI workflows without turning the org into a research lab.</description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>What founders actually need from a founding engineer</title>
          <link>https://kent-personal-site-v1.vercel.app/notes/what-founders-need-from-a-founding-engineer</link>
          <description>The difference between a founding engineer and a senior developer, and why it matters at 0→1.</description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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