TJ Klug / Operating Principal, Technology & AI
Technology and AI operator in private equity.
I build with AI inside real software companies and write up what holds up.
I'm TJ Klug, Operating Principal for Technology & AI at Clearhaven Partners. I work with portfolio company engineering teams on AI adoption and architecture, and on technical due diligence for new deals. Before that I led engineering at Armanino, Wowza, ByteChek and Limeade. This is where I write up what works.
$0.91
to build slopcheck, every debug run included
Code Enumerates, Jev Judges: Building slopcheck on a Model That Never Writes a Word
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1,500
regression tests in three days, across 50+ repos
1,500 Regression Tests in Three Days. Here's the Part That Actually Mattered.
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DGX Sparks behind a single proxy file
Claude Plans, Your Hardware Executes. A Hybrid Claude Code Setup in One Proxy File.
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You Can't Sprint Your Way to Agentic Engineering. Where to Start When Your Codebase Is Twenty Years Old.AI in Operations19 min
Code Enumerates, Jev Judges: Building slopcheck on a Model That Never Writes a WordAI Engineering13 min
Claude Plans, Your Hardware Executes. A Hybrid Claude Code Setup in One Proxy File.AI Engineering6 min
1,500 Regression Tests in Three Days. Here's the Part That Actually Mattered.AI in Operations8 min
The Last Form You'll Ever BuildAI in Operations9 min
AI Gave Your Engineers Speed. Your Process Can't Keep Up.AI in Operations8 min
Your AI Strategy Is Preserving the Code It Should Be ReplacingAI in Operations6 min
Your Sloppy Data Discipline Is About to Cost You EverythingAI in Operations6 min
The AI-DLC. Why Your SDLC Is Holding Back Your Engineering VelocityAI Engineering4 min
Why Your Engineering Team is Wasting 80% of AI Agent PotentialAI Engineering8 min
The $300M AI Reality Check Why Your Enterprise Strategy is Bleeding MoneyAI in Operations6 min
Updating Downstream Repos with Github ActionsFrontend & DevOps3 min
Enhancing Document Analysis with AI-Powered PDF HighlightingAI Engineering2 min
Using Typescript and TS-Node in GitHub ActionsFrontend & DevOps3 min
Components, Storybook, and Mocks with ViteFrontend & DevOps2 min
Delivering Truly Self-Contained React Components with ApolloFrontend & DevOps3 min