My AI Journey

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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.

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Honest Assessment 22 February 2026 8 min read

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.

Honest Assessment 15 December 2025 7 min read

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.

Honest Assessment 14 October 2025 8 min read

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.

Honest Assessment 7 October 2025 8 min read

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.

AI & Code 15 September 2025 9 min read

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.

Education 18 August 2025 7 min read

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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