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 RSSI Let My AI Agent Work Overnight. It Shipped 7 Bugs to Production. Here's What We Learned.
The uncomfortable truth about autonomous AI agents: they're powerful, fast, and confidently wrong. --- Yesterday I went for a walk, had lunch, and visited a ...
Four Projects, One Founder, Zero Excuses
Four Projects, One Founder, Zero Excuses I just pushed ModelOptix Phase 5 to completion. That sentence sounds routine until you realize Phase 5 contained sav...
While I Slept, My AI Agent Audited My Entire Business — and Told Me to Kill Half My Projects
The honest story of what happens when you give an AI agent real access to your codebase, your finances, and permission to tell you the truth. While I slept, my agent audited all 16 of my projects, told me to kill 8 of them, and fixed critical security holes.
I Gave an AI Agent Shell Access to My Server. Here's How I Sleep at Night.
The honest security guide for AI agents. Prompt injection, credential management, model choice, and every mistake I made this week — so you don't have to.
My Development Work Has Ground to a Halt Because of AI. It's Not What You Think.
How an AI agent made me stop coding — and why that's the best thing that's happened to my business. 16 products, zero revenue, and the uncomfortable truth about what solo founders actually need.
My AI Agent's Daily Routine: How I Manage 16 Projects Without Losing My Mind
Heartbeats, memory files, and cron jobs — the operating system behind a one-person business portfolio. How I use an AI agent to manage 16 projects solo without any PM tools.
How to Set Up Your Own AI Agent on AWS for Free (Step-by-Step)
Give Claude a body. Run it on your own server. Talk to it from your phone. A complete step-by-step guide to setting up Clawdbot on AWS free tier — zero additional cost if you already have a Claude subscription.
I Gave an AI Agent Full Access to My Infrastructure. Here's What Happened in 2 Hours.
How Clawdbot turned my 10-domain email nightmare into a unified system — while I was on a phone call.
Phase 5: The Final Stretch Before ModelOptix Launch
Phase 5: The Final Stretch Before ModelOptix Launch We're in the home stretch. After 4 phases of building ModelOptix—the independent AI model advisor that st...
Phase 4 Complete: ModelOptix Now Has a Business Model
Phase 4 Complete: ModelOptix Now Has a Business Model Build in Public Update - January 22, 2026 --- The Hook: Are You Paying 10x More Than You Should for AI?...
Phase 3 Complete: The Recommendation Engine Is Live
Phase 3 Complete: The Recommendation Engine Is Live The core value is here. ModelOptix now delivers personalized AI model recommendations that save you money...
I Built a Waitlist Landing Page for PlebTest (For Founders Who Hate Cold Calls)
#Founders Who Hate Cold Calls (Including Me) How PlebTest helps you validate your startup idea without the awkward phone calls --- I've been there. You have ...
ModelOptix: Full Model Catalog + Portfolio Management Live
Phase 2 Complete: Full Model Catalog + Portfolio Management Live Building in public with ModelOptix - Day 5 update. The product is taking shape fast. --- TL;...
ModelOptix Phase 1 Complete: From Zero to Full-Stack MVP in 48 Hours
Phase 1 Complete: From Zero to Full-Stack MVP in 48 Hours Building in public with ModelOptix - the independent AI model advisor that helps you stop overpayin...
Introducing PlebTest: Kill Bad Ideas Before They Kill Your Runway
Introducing PlebTest: Kill Bad Ideas Before They Kill Your Runway January 18, 2026 --- I'm building PlebTest, and I want to tell you why. The Problem Nobody ...
Introducing ModelOptix: The Independent AI Model Advisor
Introducing ModelOptix: The Independent AI Model Advisor Date: January 18, 2026 Author: Jamie Watters Category: Product Announcement Read Time: 5 minutes ---...
The CLAUDE.md Paradox: When Your AI Framework Needs to Protect User Preferences
The CLAUDE.md Paradox: When Your AI Framework Needs to Protect User Preferences How we spent a day working ON BOS-AI instead of IN it - and why that matters ...
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem Date: January 3, 2026 --- The Bug That Masked Another Bug Today we fixed two critical...
The SaaS Boilerplate Killer
The SaaS Boilerplate Killer: How Sprint 9 Changed Everything Why I Almost Built the Wrong Thing I was going to build a SaaS boilerplate. You know the type—au...