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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.

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From Lab to Life17 Aug 2026 · Essay

The Mixed Fleet

Can a frontier orchestrator on a subscription delegate to local open-weight models?

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From Lab to Life16 Mar 2026 · Essay

Behind the Curtain: The Three-Phase Process I Use to Build Every AI-Coded Product

Two years ago, I started an experiment. I wanted to know whether I could build production-grade software products without writing most of the code myself. Not because I was lazy. Because I had thirty years of product ideas and not nearly enough development hours to explore them.

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