Articles
Essays and reflections
Reflections on building small applications, supervising machine output, and keeping humans in the loop.
Judgement
How I check what AI tells me
A practical framework for evaluating machine-generated text, identifying plausible hallucinations, and knowing when verification is mandatory.
September 17, 2026
Building
Nine small apps, and what they taught me
Reflections on building and deploying nine small web applications, from public tools to software built for small groups.
September 17, 2026
Using AI
The approval gate is the feature
Why automated workflows must retain a deliberate human checkpoint whenever systems interact with colleagues, clients, or production systems.
September 17, 2026
Using AI
Where AI still slows me down
A realistic look at the cognitive friction of working with language models: review overhead, unfamiliar domains, and the discipline of knowing when to write manually.
September 17, 2026