JOURNAL.
[2026]
Building Is Free
Four developer platforms in twenty years and the failures that all resolved the same way. Building software is free now, so what stays scarce is taste and judgment, and the person doing the judging has the worst tooling in the building.
[READ →]The Shape Change Is the Review
Generation scaled a thousandfold this year, and judgment scaled by zero. A field report from three industries on the atomic unit, the map that rules before the code exists, and the review that happens upstream of the flood.
[READ →]Show Your Work
Two years building evaluation systems for high-stakes work, and the layer underneath grading that almost nobody ships. Build it, grade it, or prove it. A real case where the judge gave a perfect score to an answer the proof failed cold, off by $378,059.
[READ →]Who Decides
What counts as correct in consequential work, and who owns that decision, sits upstream of every model and rarely gets built. A capable system failed a case the expert had already closed, and the failure was never about the model.
[READ →]Step Zero
A fractional engagement where the eval platform got built before anyone had agreed what it was evaluating. One lesson that changed how I approach every engagement after.
[READ →]Operating Mode
Three machines, parallel sessions, agents running overnight. The operating system I built around Claude Code, and why it changed how I think about solo engineering.
[READ →]The Long Game
Eight-plus years of Apple Watch data feeding Bodhi, my personal AI. HealthKit to Redis to Claude via MCP.
[READ →]Technical Storytelling
Reverse-engineering as trade craft. The narrative layer for OpenClaw, Hermes, and an investor deck currently in front of capital. Same technical work, different rooms.
[READ →]Paxora
One founder, U.S. family law, no prior legal-tech experience. The first year of a solo build from incorporation in July 2025, and the four walls I had to work through.
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