The Gates Are the Feature
Building the camera for the Forest School App, the AI kept trying to make it just work. In safeguarding software, a camera that refuses to open isn't a bug - it's the entire point.
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A .NET developer and CTO's honest account of going from AI sceptic to AI-first development. The wins, the failures, and everything in between.
The Handoff Gap: AI Wrote the Code, I Forgot the Secret
The code was flawless. The email never arrived. "I thought you'd added the settings" is how a real sign-up quietly vanishes.
Read more →A New Model Reviewed My Side Project and Told Me Off About Pricing
A smarter model reviewed my side project and, instead of more code, told me my "pricing problem" wasn't real - and then named the comfortable work I was hiding in.
Read more →I Built an IDE Because I Wasn't Using Mine
I was using Cursor. I wasn't using Cursor. I was using it as a glorified terminal organiser for Claude Code sessions. So I built my own desktop app in a day and open-sourced it before dinner.
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