The Journey
Field reports from building with AI in public. What's working, what isn't, and what it cost me. Open numbers, the failures before the wins.
Subscribe via RSSThe Smartest Developers I Know Left Their Brains at the Door
Even seasoned developers leave their brains at the door when AI agents impress them. The better the tool, the less we scrutinize it. Here's the pattern, why it's dangerous, and what to do about it.
4 Sprints in One Day: What I Learned
Four sprints in one day on my crypto trading agent — model upgrade bugs, context expansion, stale prompt fix, and a correlation cap that would have saved $63.
I Spent 12 Hours Optimizing My LLM Stack. Here's What I Found.
I pulled my billing data and realized I was paying for outdated models. 22% cost reduction later, I built ModelOptix.
I Built the Consumer Reports for AI SEO Tools. In 6 Days.
Six days ago, this didnt exist. Now its live with 32 tools scored across 51 dimensions by 6 AI models. Zero sponsors.
I Built an Emergency Brake for My Trading Bot. It Never Fired. Here's Why.
My trading bot had an emergency brake. It ran for 88 trades. It never fired once. Not because it wasn't needed — because two bugs silently disabled it.
We Scored 32 AI SEO Tools With 9,792 Tests. Here's What No One Else Will Tell You.
We just published the first independent benchmark of 32 AI search optimization tools. 9,792 evaluations. 6 AI models. Zero sponsors. Here's what we found.
Why Our AI Search Benchmark Methodology Lives in a Public GitHub Repo
We published our entire scoring methodology — 51 dimensions, 128 evaluation prompts, 6 AI models. Here's why every benchmark should be transparent.
When Your Trading Bot Loses $97 in 3 Hours — And How We Fixed It
My AI trading system was right about the market — detected the regime flip perfectly. Still lost $97 in 3 hours. Here's what I learned about pacing and portfolio-level risk.
I Built an AI Benchmark Platform in a Day. Here's Why It Matters.
27 tools. Every one says they're the best. Not one can prove it. I built AISearchArena.com to change that.
You Can Rank #1 and Still Be Invisible
Here's what LinkedIn didn't want to tell you. 60% of B2B traffic disappeared while rankings stayed the same.
Trader-7: +10% in 80 Hours, Critical Bug Fix & Late-Entry Pattern Discovery
February 2026 performance report: +9.98% return, discovered critical order_mgr bug that broke regime protection, found late-entry pattern causing 77% of losses.
Everyone's generating llms.txt. Which tool actually works?
I benchmarked 14 AI visibility tools so you don't have to. Here's what I found.
The $200,000 Problem Nobody's Talking About
OpenAI launched ads in ChatGPT with a $200,000 minimum spend. Here's the $4.95 fix for solopreneurs who can't afford to play.
Claude Killed My Subscription. I Found Something 90% Cheaper.
"Computer says no." The moment I tried to push code and VS Code said no. Then my OpenClaw bots died.
93% of AI Searches Never Reach a Website. Which Side Are You On?
93% of queries in Google's AI Mode never result in a click. ChatGPT is charging $60 CPM for ads. LinkedIn B2B traffic is down 60%. The shift to AI search isn't coming. It's here. Here's what it means if you're not a Fortune 500.
No Code Changes. No Bug Fixes. Just the System... Trading.
My AI trading system ran for 24 hours unsupervised. +$91 profit, zero losses, Sharpe ratio hit 2.02. After 14 sprints in 25 days, nothing broke. That is the milestone.
If This Isn't a Month's Work, I'm Not Trying Hard Enough
Last year I believed we overestimate what we can do in a day. Now I think if I'm not compressing months into a Monday, I'm not trying hard enough. Here's everything I shipped in one day with two AI agents.
The Session Where Everything Clicked: +$118 in 36 Hours
My AI trading system went from a 0.57 Sharpe ratio to 1.83 in 36 hours. A trailing stop fix I shipped 3 days ago captured $207 in profits during a crypto sell-off. One trade I flagged as 'marginal' became the biggest winner.
I Let My AI Agent Read My Email. Then I Tried to Hack It.
How I built a zero-cost, air-gapped email triage system — and why every AI agent setup with email access is a ticking time bomb.