Notes from a workshop of one.
How I actually build: the harness around the AI, the zero-dependency habit, the tools that let one person ship like a team.
Post · Sep 16, 2026 · 10 minIt Took Me Months to Build 258 Pages by Hand. In 2026, AI Did It in Seconds.
The script would have taken an afternoon. Nobody was available to write it. Here is what that taught me about why large companies cannot automate simple things, and what AI actually changed.
Post · Sep 9, 2026 · 4 minThe Best Deal Washington Didn't Offer
Canada cannot put a tariff on the technology that runs its days. That empty shelf might be the best deal we get out of this trade war.
Post · Sep 4, 2026 · 7 minWhat Happened When I Capped Claude's Context Window at 250K
One setting, 29,306 API calls before and after, and a bill that fell by half while the work stayed the same. A case study in why a long chat costs more per message, with the numbers I can stand behind and the parts I can only report as impressions.
Post · Aug 27, 2026 · 6 minSame Song, Four Different Bills
Four Claude runs, one songwriting task, and the biggest gap in the whole benchmark came from a single model measured against itself twice. What a model-efficiency test looks like before it can name a winner.
Post · Aug 19, 2026 · 7 minRunning a Studio Session
Sometimes the enormous window is the point. How to spend that deliberately instead of leaking it.
Post · Aug 12, 2026 · 7 minBuilding the Assembly Line
The default session shape in detail: folder layout, search commands, the prompts I paste, and two hooks that keep me honest.
Post · Aug 5, 2026 · 8 minThe Rent You Pay Every Turn
I audited 3 months and 16 billion tokens of my own AI sessions. The bill was not where I thought.
Post · Jul 22, 2026 · 6 minHow I Ship Thirteen Games Without Hand-Testing Any of Them
Shipping a lot alone is a tooling problem, and the tool that matters most is the one that checks your work while you sleep.
Post · Jul 15, 2026 · 6 minZero dependencies on purpose
Why almost everything I ship is one self-contained file, and the sentence I write at build time that keeps that from turning into a mistake.
Post · Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min