Writing
Building and shipping web products with AI-augmented workflows — real costs, real pricing, real lessons.
I fixed my typing trainer in the middle of a lesson
I was learning Colemak on a typing trainer from 2012. Every time it annoyed me, I told Claude Code. By midnight it had a reference keyboard, a weak-key report and a streak counter, and I never stopped practising for long.
I wrote down my own weakness, then walked into it three times
Before a consulting engagement at a large bank, I had an AI role-play the stakeholders and grade my answers. It found a reflex I had already documented in my own preparation notes — and had no ability to stop.
I graded myself instead of the AI for a week
I spent a week grading my own delegation instead of blaming the model. The AI passed. I didn't — and it changed how I write every request.
What an MVP actually costs in 2026
Eight weeks, $128 a month, and 320 hours of my time. I built a real subscription product with AI and kept the receipts — including my own estimate of what it would have cost the old way.
Pay by feature, not by hour
After twenty years of hourly billing, I dropped the hour. A feature has a price, you pay when it works — and the same price now buys tests, documentation, a real UI, and delivery in days.
Why I'd rather work with an AI agent than a junior developer
I planted ten bugs in a live codebase to test my AI review pipeline. It found every expensive one and missed every obvious one — and that pattern is exactly the point.