Essays

Long-form thought on AI-assisted development, agent mode, DevOps philosophy, and what changes when the human is three abstraction levels above the code. Some essays lean technical, some lean philosophical; they share the systems-engineering frame.

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Blueprint-style illustration, not a real diagram: a tilting maze with a ball labeled Physics-Based Puzzle Game and Labby-App, ringed by labels for interface-driven design, metadata systems, AI-optimized code and testing

Oct 18, 2025 • 8 min

AI Development Revolution Part 7: Advanced Patterns

Advanced patterns from a game I built. Interfaces, metadata, batch operations, and what it takes to make code a machine can actually work in.

Illustration of a man seen from behind facing a glowing city skyline under the word Future, surrounded by floating chart panels

Oct 17, 2025 • 9 min

AI Development Revolution Part 6: Future Impact

Less about what I built with AI and more about what it cost: the wrist pain, the late rebuilds, one brain holding every role, and what that means for solo founders and teams.

One person alone at a desk late at night, a laptop and a second screen glowing with a retro web page layout under a warm lamp

Aug 29, 2025 • 5 min

AI Development Revolution Part 5: Building the Organic Arts Website

Building the Organic Arts LLC website alone with AI: three redesigns, a retro look in Flutter web, a production launch that broke everything, and being the whole agency at once.

Illustration of a handwritten page passing through OCR and AI markers into stacked cards labeled Articles and Blog Posts, with a 363+ Articles badge

Aug 10, 2025 • 5 min

AI Development Revolution Part 4: Content Pipeline

Turning years of handwriting and a tangled WordPress blog into something I could maintain, without letting the machine flatten the voice out of it. OCR for cursive, a WordPress to Astro migration, and where automation actually ends.

Isometric illustration of blue database and server blocks linked by glowing lines, two orange blocks highlighted, hands typing on a laptop in the corner

Aug 5, 2025 • 8 min

AI Development Revolution Part 3: Infrastructure

Building the Organic Arts back office on AWS with AI in weeks: CDK stacks for identity, networking, compute and security, and what holding all of it in my head cost.

Flat teal illustration of three A tiles labeled Autonomous, Adaptive and Agile above circuit lines, with an AI chip, chat bubbles and code panels

Jul 31, 2025 • 10 min

AI Development Revolution Part 2: The Methodology

How my AI collaboration went from chaos to a method: the AAA Framework (Autonomous, Adaptive, Agile), a digital 5S, and what four very different repositories each taught me.

Multiple people with glowing, interconnected thought threads flowing into different monitors

Jul 22, 2025 • 13 min

The Multithreaded Mind: Six Weeks Living at Machine Speed

Six weeks after an O'Reilly AI conference flipped a switch, I went from copy-pasting LLM output to more than a dozen repositories, and a month started to feel like a year. Notes on time dilation and vibe coding.

Feb 21, 2025 • 5 min

On Intelligence

Handwritten notes on why humans seem so unlike every other animal. Whales, original sin, technology as something latent, and the question of how intelligence like ours happened at all.