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Korab Eland

What is Korab building?

Between roles, building in public while the job search runs

Go on. Open the files. Korab said it was fine.1 files

Companies

Home and lab

Who I follow

People

My rules for working with AI

grilling.md

My favorite skill: grilling

One command for stress-testing a plan before anything gets built. The AI interviews me one question at a time, gives its own recommended answer to each, and builds nothing until we agree.

The whole skill

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

If a *fact* can be found by exploring the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), look it up rather than asking me. The *decisions*, though, are mine: put each one to me and wait for my answer.

Do not act on it until I confirm we have reached a shared understanding.
Most-used skills
brain-sync, delegate, token-review, wait-what
  • The builder never grades its own work. A different model, ideally from a different family, checks it.

    Perian, Pascal's Playground, Firstmate agent crew

    Lesson coming

  • Unknown stays unknown. Never let the AI turn a missing detail into a guess, a 'no' or a zero.

    Used-car search kit, Relocation Playbook

    Lesson coming

  • One fact, one record. Keep each fact in its own small file with a source and a re-check date, never in a summary.

    Relocation Playbook, Open Brain

    Lesson coming

  • The AI does the research; I approve anything that costs money, commits me or leaves the house.

    Used-car search kit, SailCast, Token Spend Review

    Lesson coming

  • Write the reason next to every rule, so future me knows why it's there.

    Firstmate agent crew, Nightshift

    Lesson coming

About Korab

Korab Eland

About Korab, according to Claude

Desktop as of November 1, 2026

Korab Eland spent thirteen years in marketing, CX and operations, then started running a small fleet of AI agents from one MacBook.

Korab's agents must address Korab as 'captain' in every chat message. The overnight crew clocks on at 10pm, works only on local models, and a separate checker marks its homework before breakfast.

Korab has written more rules for how AI should talk than most companies have for how people should.

How my AI rates me

  • How technical, before AInever codedengineer
  • How technical, nowchats onlyships production
  • Projects finished vs. startedstarts everythingfinishes everything
  • Lets AI act on its owncopy and pasteruns on its own
  • Hours a week building with AIunder 140+
Industry
Higher education, Marketing, Customer experience

LinkedIn

Between rolesEx-corporateFounderEducationHome and familySide business

DO NOT OPEN

address_me_as_captain.txt

Every agent on this ship must call me captain at least once in every chat message.

Including bad news. Especially bad news.

Aye

Claude CodeCodexGeminiOllamaHermes AgentObsidianSupabaseVercelNotionFirstmate