From Lab to Life6 Aug 2026 · Essay
I Could Tell You My AI Has Never Lied. I'm Not Going To.
Seven months, two generations, one production rebuild — and five things I learned that I did not expect to learn.
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The thesisChasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the CodeWe are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.The methodEvery Product Needs a HomeBuilding a modern website in the age of AI agents: a manual, told through the new website of The CuratorThe researchContext as Architecture: Full-Corpus Grounding, Orchestrated Agentic Development, and Compliance-by-Design in a Production AI Assistant PlatformThis paper reports a longitudinal design-science case study of a single production artefact — Lumina, a multi-tenant AI assistant platform — across two complete generations built fourteen months apart in capability terms and seven months apart in calendar terms.
From Lab to Life31 Jul 2026 · Essay
Lumina: An AI Agent Your Business Can Stand Behind
The behind-the-scenes rebuild of Lumina from Gen-1 to an enterprise-grade Gen-2.
From Lab to Life10 Jul 2026 · Essay
Six Months After I Shipped Lumina; Here's What Actually Happened
Running Lumina with real customers six months after launch. A Ljubljana massage studio hit a forgotten 2,000-character personality limit mid-conversation; the systemic fix raised the limit fourfold and added live counters.
From Lab to Life9 Mar 2026 · Essay
From Writing Code to Directing Intelligence: Five Days Inside Augment Code's Intent
Five days testing Augment Code's Intent orchestration tool on the production Lumina platform (building Lumina Pro).
From Lab to Life14 Jan 2026 · Essay
How I Built an AI Marketing Team That Actually Works: From Memes to Technical Content in Minutes
An AI multi-agent marketing workflow in which different agents handle different content types.
From Lab to Life5 Jan 2026 · Essay
From Prototype to Production: Building Lumina an AI Widget Platform in 30 Days
The Lumina Widget build story: a 30-day sprint from concept to production on a budget of about $100 in AI credits, using Augment Code with Claude Haiku 4.5.
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From Lab to Life11 Dec 2025 · Essay
From Google AI Studio to Production: Building Lumina v1 in 48 Hours
How the first version of Lumina was prototyped in Google AI Studio and taken to production on Firebase in 48 hours.