Now I build AI products while keeping my day job as VP—and I write about the journey. The wins, the failures, and everything in between.
Two production platforms, built solo while maintaining my day job. Real users, real metrics, real learning.
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Intelligence Over Execution
Thoughts on AI, learning, and building
After using Claude Code with Opus 4.6 daily for almost a year, I spent a week with Codex and GPT-5.4. The verdict: neither tool wins outright. The combination — cross-model review, complementary strengths, operational resilience — is better than either alone.
Two weeks ago I wrote "Still building. Still not done." Today DIALØGUE is live on the App Store. Here's what the last 40% actually looked like.
493 blog posts across 17 years, translated into 10 languages, ~4,900 files, ~3.9 million words. Claude Code's parallel agents made it possible — but the Korean disaster, the Cantonese voice problem, and the 5-hour usage cap taught me more than the successes.
I'm building my first iOS app without knowing Swift. Claude Code scaffolded the whole thing in an evening. Then I opened the Simulator, and the real work began.
I migrated my blog to Next.js and thought the hard part was over. Then the compounding started — 6 mega guides, a smarter AI assistant, native newsletter, bot protection, and SEO overhaul in 8 days.
After visiting 26 national parks as an expat family, here's our honest guide — the 8 parks we'd revisit in a heartbeat, the ones that disappointed us, 4 road trip routes, and everything international visitors need to know in 2026.
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