Software engineer with a long history of building systems. Now learning AI-assisted engineering from scratch — because I want to understand it properly before I have opinions about it.
AUTOMATION
I wanted Claude Code running on a server — not on my laptop, not tethered to a terminal session I have to keep open. A machine that picks up tickets from Linear, works on them, pushes code, and keeps going while I do something else. So I built it. Terraform, a
VIBE KANBAN
Maya is my daughter. She is five and a half and she plays the piano. We practice together five days a week, she and I, sitting at the keys. She already has an Instagram page — maya.on.keys — but it is only videos. The songs she has learned, the milestones,
AI
This is not a story about asking an AI to build something and watching it appear. It is a story about using AI as a deliberate engineering tool — with planning, constraints, and accountability — on a real production project. The Project Live Recorder is a live-TV catchup recording service. It captures
AI
The first time I tried — and why I came back I had used coding assistants at the beginning of 2025 but after a few tryouts I decided it was still not the right time. Somehow I was unable to control the agent that well — maybe my approach was wrong or