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    1. What Is AI, Really? I Had to Explain It to My Daughter

      My daughter asked me what AI is. Trying to explain it to her — simply, honestly — turned out to be harder than any technical interview I've ever done.…


    2. From Building to Orchestrating: The SDLC Skills That Changed How I Ship

      I distilled my 8-agent SDLC framework into three skills and shipped two projects in under a week. The velocity was real. So were the failure modes.…


    3. StoryTime: Building a Local AI Storybook App That Never Phones Home

      My daughter and I built bedtime stories together — she helps write them, local AI generates the cover images, and nothing leaves the machine. Here's how it came together.…


    4. Human Error vs Machine Judgment: A Comparative Failure Record

      Before AI could make catastrophic decisions, humans had a head start. Here's the comparative record — what we broke, how we broke it, and what changed when the mistakes started making themselves.…


    5. Writing AI Agent Specs: Less Art, more checklists

      How building 8 specialized AI agents for a full SDLC taught me that good specs aren't about prose — they're about checklists, boundaries, and templates.…