// writing — 41 essays & counting
Writing
I write a mix of essays on AI, technology, and digital life — sharing insights, experiences, and reflections from my journey so far.
Series
· Medium · 3 parts
The Great Collapse: the Agentic SDLC
A comic-panel walk through how AI agents are collapsing traditional software delivery, from planning an initiative to proposing the architecture.
Start with Part 1 →
– · Medium · 5 parts
Is AI a SaaS killer?
Can one person ship a SaaS product with AI? I built ThinkWrite to find out: choosing the stack, vibe architecting, vibe coding, and what had changed a year later.
Start with Part 1 →
– · Medium · ongoing
AI-First Game Development
Taking Oh My Words! from tabletop party game to AI-built online game: training a GPT, AI-generated art, the ideas machine, launch day, and levelling up the workflow.
Start with Part 0: The Challenge →
– · Medium · 3 parts
Future Makers
A guide for young digital entrepreneurs: how the internet changed the world, what digital life looks like, and how to use it to make and sell your own work.
Start with the introduction →
Selected essays
· Medium
Don't lose your mind over something BIG that's happening
A calmer response to the viral Something Big Is Happening post.
· Medium
Building an entire game from one prompt (Ralph Wiggum style)
Rerunning my 2023 one-prompt game experiment with Claude Code running in a loop.
· Medium
Lifecycles, not Use Cases
A five-step guide to getting a return on GenAI by applying it across whole lifecycles instead of isolated use cases.
· Medium
An AI-Assisted Indie Author's Journey
Writing Hello, World! with ChatGPT, Grammarly and Midjourney — while keeping the prose my own.
· Medium
Building a GPT Powered Vehicle Recommendation Engine
Turning a conversation into a structured search with GPT, LangChain and Azure Cognitive Search.
· Medium
How to Survive the AI Job Apocalypse
Five strategies for working alongside AI, written three months before ChatGPT launched.
· Medium
Clarity: One of the Most Important (and Often Ignored) Aspects of Software Architecture
Why a system that's easy to understand matters as much as one that works.
· Medium · most read
How the Internet has changed the world
A long-form look at three decades of the web — still my most-read piece.
· LinkedIn Pulse · first AI essay
Artificial Intelligence: Where is the magic?
Published five years before ChatGPT — the through-line of everything since.
Also in — LinkedIn Pulse · The AI Journal · BBC Radio 4
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