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).
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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 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.
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.