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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 Life19 Jun 2026 · Essay

I Built a 24/7 AI Email Support Agent for My App. Here's the Exact Stack.

Every founder I know has the same problem with email support. In the early days, you handle it yourself. You are fast, you are personal, and you actually know the product. Then you get busier. Response times slip. Users start to notice. You think about hiring someone, but the volume does not justify it yet. So you buy a helpdesk tool, set up some canned responses, and tell yourself you will get to the backlog this weekend. You never get to the backlog.

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From Lab to Life3 Jun 2026 · Essay

Context is the Code: The Complete Three-Phase Process for Building with AI Agents

In the first article, I named the phases: Context Engineering, The Build Phase, Production and Deployment. That naming had an unintentional effect. By calling Phase One “Context Engineering,” I implied that context engineering was something you did once — at the beginning — and then left behind.

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From Lab to Life12 Aug 2025 · Essay

Exploring Early Indicators of AGI in Coding Agents: MCP + Cline Case Study

What happens when you give an entry-level AI model the right tools and see if it can build complex software? That’s exactly what I tested in my latest research, and the results reveal something fascinating about the path toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

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