Build in Public Private Tools Don't Export Three years of private notes are harder to explain than I expected. What writing the README taught me about whether the compression was real.
Build in Public The Scores Improved. The Results Got Worse. I built a tool to grade my writing. Then I wired it into the thing it was grading.
AI Coding FORGE: What Happens When You Spec Before You Build PAIRED solved multi-agent execution. The bottleneck moved to the spec. FORGE automates decomposition: natural language in, explicit task graph out.
Build in Public Why I Stopped Using One AI Agent for Everything I fell in love with Windsurf for about three months. The agentic coding experience was different. More fluid than Cursor. It felt like the assistant was in the project with you, not just answering questions about it. Then I started building things complex enough to expose the problem. Long sessions,
Build in Public Three Years at AI Tinkerers. Three Presentations. One Pattern. I've been showing up to AI Tinkerers for three years. I started going before I had anything worth demoing. I kept going after I did. The difference between those two states taught me more than the presentations. AI Tinkerers is a monthly meetup for people building with AI.
Build in Public How a ChatGPT Prompt Log Became a 43-Module AI Reasoning Framework In 2023, I had a ChatGPT Project with a growing stack of files in the knowledgebase. Not a framework. Just files. Instructions I'd written. Patterns I'd noticed. Things I wanted the model to carry between sessions. I was running a one-person shop, no team to
AI Coding Solo AI Builder: 6 Years, 4 Frameworks, No Partners From Google Ads scripts to 450 commits a month — and what ten years of going solo actually taught me about building alone in the AI era.
AI Tools From AI Tinkerer to Tool Builder: Three Years of Surviving the AIPocalypse Three years ago, I made a decision that would reshape everything: if I was going to survive the coming AIPocalypse, I would need to control the AI, or the AI would control me. It started at Seattle's AI Tinkerers meetups—rooms full of engineers, entrepreneurs, and curious minds
Founder Perspective I Built a Psychology-Based Copy Analyzer. Here’s What 200+ Real B2B Messages Taught Me. For the past year, I've been building COS — a tool that uses Big Five personality psychology to analyze B2B communications. Not grammar. Not readability. Personality coverage. The premise is simple: every piece of copy you write passes through an invisible psychological filter in your reader's brain.
