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June 30, 2026 · AI, Building

An AI agent wrote most of the code — but slicing work, consent defaults, and knowing what not to ship stayed human.

June 28, 2026 · AI, Building

How a household watchlist became a Next.js app — and what changed when AI showed up as designer, orchestrator, and coder.

June 25, 2026 · Product

XR is moving from demos to daily utility — five engineering shifts that matter for product teams.

May 20, 2026 · AI, Building

Error recovery, file persistence, and fallback planning for Julian — a self-hosted assistant on a Galaxy S21.

May 20, 2026 · AI

Structured MCP endpoints so AI assistants can discover services, case studies, and book a clarity session.

May 15, 2026 · AI, Building

A Galaxy S21, a local LLM, and cascading inference — building Julian without subscriptions or cloud lock-in.

October 10, 2025 · Product, AI

Why luxury car buying will happen through conversation — and how WebMCP turns existing web logic into agent tools.

October 8, 2025 · AI, Building

Connecting local LLMs to the MCP ecosystem — stdio and HTTP transports, tool design, and Railway deployment.

October 8, 2025 · Product

From architect to PO — prioritization, saying no, and why the messy middle of a career leap is the point.

October 3, 2025 · AI, Building

From local browser automation experiments to a cloud-ready MCP server for AI assistants.

January 1, 2024 · Product

Public journaling of the engineer-to-PM transition — 20-minute exercises and the why behind the leap.

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