The 80-Message UX Iteration: Where AI Helps and Where It Falls Short
Building semantic search took twenty minutes. Making it look right took eighty messages, four context resets, and a developer who eventually grabbed the CSS himself.
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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.
Is Claude Conscious? Asked the Developer Who Talks to It All Day
Anthropic's CEO says he's no longer sure whether Claude is conscious. I spend hours a day working with it. Here's what that's actually like.
Read more →Sixty-Six Miles of Guilt
I calculated my AI footprint: sixty-six miles of driving over thirty days. About one and a half school runs. That number sent me down a rabbit hole about boycotts, data centres, and where green responsibility actually sits.
Read more →When Your Custom App Becomes a Markdown File
I built a full .NET application to automate support ticket triage. Then Claude pointed out the entire thing could be replaced by a single skill definition.
Read more →The MCP Reality Check in 2026
MCP is brilliant when it works. But nobody talks about the sessions spent wrestling with phantom connections, deprecated protocols, Windows-specific pain, and OAuth errors that make you question your career choices.
Read more →The Blog Can't Keep Up (And Neither Can I)
The chronological story of my AI journey is falling behind reality. Boris Cherny says coding is solved, Claude Code is 4% of GitHub commits, and I'm still writing about October. Time for an author's note.
Read more →The AI Image Problem (and Other Things That Still Don't Work)
A counterpoint to the hype - honest about the gaps, limitations, and frustrations of working with AI every day.
Read more →When AI Can't Do CSS: The Comedy of Iterative UI Debugging
Emoji reactions should be simple. Modals should appear in the centre. CSS changes should actually apply. A brutally honest account of what AI-driven UI work actually looks like.
Read more →It Looks Like a Developer Built a SaaS
The constant battle against generic Bootstrap aesthetics. When AI builds something functional but forgettable, and the relentless iteration needed to make it look like a real product.
Read more →Using AI as a Senior Developer You Can't Quite Trust
AI as a coding assistant - the copy-paste-and-check era. Azure pipelines, MongoDB, Blazor debugging, and learning when to trust the answers.
Read more →I Asked an AI If It Could Read My Screen
The awkward beginning - arriving at AI as a sceptic, asking daft questions, and slowly realising this thing might actually be useful.
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