Dan Shipper

Co-Founder & CEO of Every

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ABOUT

Co-founder & CEO of Every.to and creator of Spiral. Prominent AI essayist and builder on X (@danshipper) with over 100,000 followers. Pioneer in conversational software development, personal AI knowledge engines, and practical vibe coding workflows.

Areas of focus

Professional niches

THE WORK BEHIND THE PROFILE

Proof of Work

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The Architecture of Conversational Programming and AI-Native Workflows

Authored landmark essays dissecting how solo founders build complete production web applications via conversational dialogue with Claude and Cursor.

Scope & limitations

Conversational programming requires structured git commits to roll back erroneous multi-file generations.

Context: Cursor, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Next.js, prompt-driven refactoring.

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Spiral: Natural Language Creative Writing and Synthesis Engine

Architected Spiral, an AI writing tool designed to capture a writer's idiosyncratic voice and transform rough brain-dumps into polished essays using recursive prompt chaining.

Scope & limitations

Capturing idiosyncratic writing voice requires extensive fine-grained few-shot style examples.

Context: Claude 3.5 Sonnet, recursive LLM prompt chains, personal style embedding.

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