The Maintenance Bet
Open-sourcing something isn't a technical decision. It's a promise about your future attention. The honest question for a solo builder: will I still care about this when the interesting phase is over?
The Assumption You Didn't Know You Had
The cold reader doesn't reveal that you wrote badly. They reveal the assumptions you forgot you'd made. What asking people to read the KnowledgeForge README cold taught me about context and documentation.
Private Tools Don't Export
KnowledgeForge is an open-source reasoning framework for AI coding assistants. Three years of private use, 43 modules reduced to 9 in a Pareto pass — and what writing the README taught me about explaining tools you build for yourself.
29 Versions, 23 Failures, and the Three-Line Fix That Changed Everything
Six weeks ago I asked a simple question: could an AI system redesign a battle bot, test it in a live competitive arena, diagnose its own failures, and improve itself — without any human involvement in the loop? The answer turned out to be yes. It also took 23 consecutive failures to get there.
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
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.
Benchmarking KnowledgeForge on GAIA: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I'm building KnowledgeForge (KF) — a reasoning framework that sits on top of a base model and routes work to specialized