The Cost of Trying Has Changed
Cheaper experiments let us revisit ideas we once ruled out. An introduction to my four-part series on software abundance, accessibility, and the cost of building.
Tagged: ai
My Résumé Is a JSON Blob. AI Does the Rest.
Building a job-search harness taught me that the hard part of automation isn't generating documents. It's knowing what you're willing to put your name on.
The Work Didn’t Disappear
I spent five to twelve hours building a tabletop campaign with AI. The tools changed what I could make in those hours. The decisions were still mine.
Why I Built Heinlein
How I turned repeatable book-layout rules into a five-format publishing pipeline, with AI helping me build and review it.
AI Is an Accessibility Revolution. The Productivity People Just Found It First.
AI as access and agency: what tools give back when the world was not built for you.
The Fox and the Eval
Code, model, and human judgment: what an AI system must preserve through transformation.
Bunch
I have DID. Bunch is a private companion I built to hold the context my memory drops between alters — a build log about using AI to accommodate yourself, and what it looks like to start with the verbs instead of the screens.
The Four Stages Nobody Tells You About
The people getting real value from AI aren't the ones with the best prompts — they're the ones who moved through four predictable stages as fast as possible. A map for getting unstuck from prompt obsession.
Claude Design and the Novel T
If you give me agents, a CMS, a publishing pipeline, and one free evening, I will eventually try to write my own word processor. On Novel T, scene-aware drafting, and what an agent-native writing tool actually looks like.
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