Building with AI.
What it takes to build real things with AI: vibe coding, agents and the harness around a model. Each piece says what worked and what broke.
I just had another aha moment.
In one day of talking, Claude Fable 5.2 and Blender turned my 2011 architecture project into a gallery you can walk through. What it got wrong.
11 Nov 2026 · 10 min
Why I stopped using Canva.
Canva cut 1,271 jobs in November 2026. I had already stopped using it. Four reasons, one flyer made three ways, and the question for any business AI can copy.
5 Nov 2026 · 5 min
How I doubled my newsletter with AI, and your vote on engineers
AI helped me send 292 LinkedIn messages and 63 people joined, about 1 in 5. The lift came from the human side. Plus the vote on whether engineers are redundant.
21 Oct 2026 · 4 min
Is understanding code turning into a mechanism for trivia?
AI now writes most new code at Google. My take: review what software does, not how it is written, and hire builders, before engineers go the way of architects.
7 Oct 2026 · 4 min
Voice in the car, actions in the calendar
Four steps and no software: a phrase I say every time, one folder, a file handed from one model to another, and me deciding what reaches the calendar.
16 Sept 2026 · 4 min
Language models reason. Code calculates. The distinction that saves you
A CFO's spreadsheet added up perfectly and answered the wrong question. The rule that prevents it, and the harness that makes any model worth using.
26 Aug 2026 · 5 minGet Build Notes by email
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