The Maintenance Bet
Open-sourcing something isn't a technical decision. It's a promise about your future attention. The honest question for a solo builder: will I still care about this when the interesting phase is over?
The Assumption You Didn't Know You Had
The cold reader doesn't reveal that you wrote badly. They reveal the assumptions you forgot you'd made. What asking people to read the KnowledgeForge README cold taught me about context and documentation.
Private Tools Don't Export
KnowledgeForge is an open-source reasoning framework for AI coding assistants. Three years of private use, 43 modules reduced to 9 in a Pareto pass — and what writing the README taught me about explaining tools you build for yourself.
The Scores Improved. The Results Got Worse.
I built a tool to grade my writing. Then I wired it into the thing it was grading.
FORGE: What Happens When You Spec Before You Build
PAIRED solved multi-agent execution. The bottleneck moved to the spec. FORGE automates decomposition: natural language in, explicit task graph out.
Why I Stopped Using One AI Agent for Everything
I fell in love with Windsurf for about three months. The agentic coding experience was different. More fluid than Cursor. It felt
Three Years at AI Tinkerers. Three Presentations. One Pattern.
I've been showing up to AI Tinkerers for three years. I started going before I had anything worth demoing. I
How a ChatGPT Prompt Log Became a 43-Module AI Reasoning Framework
In 2023, I had a ChatGPT Project with a growing stack of files in the knowledgebase. Not a framework. Just files. Instructions
Solo AI Builder: 6 Years, 4 Frameworks, No Partners
From Google Ads scripts to 450 commits a month — and what ten years of going solo actually taught me about building alone in the AI era.
From AI Tinkerer to Tool Builder: Three Years of Surviving the AIPocalypse
Three years ago, I made a decision that would reshape everything: if I was going to survive the coming AIPocalypse, I would
I Built a Psychology-Based Copy Analyzer. Here’s What 200+ Real B2B Messages Taught Me.
For the past year, I've been building SEMalytics, a content monitor that scores B2B communications against Big Five personality psychology.