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Essays on building with AI, product, and the systems in between. Long-form, hands-on, and occasionally about what broke.

Building with AI

We're not building great AI tools for non-technical audiences (yet)

I built a job scanner that runs while I sleep. I couldn't hand it to a smart, motivated friend. The gap between "I want that" and "I can do that" is still enormous.

March 20, 2026

Building with AI

What Running an AI Job Scanner Daily Actually Looks Like

Two weeks running my AI job scanner. The field report: extraction failures, a temporary block, duplicate noise, and what actually held up.

March 6, 2026

Building with AI

I Paid to Scrub My Data From Hundreds of Data Brokers. Then I Sent Even More to an AI.

I pay a service to scrub my data from hundreds of brokers. Then I hand an AI my taxes, my finances, my fears. Where should that personal context actually live?

March 2, 2026

Building with AI

I Built an AI Job Search Assistant That Texts Me When It Finds Roles I Should Apply To

How a Mac Mini in my apartment scans LinkedIn twice a day, filters for roles that match my profile, and texts me the results, for about six cents a day.

February 23, 2026