From Lab to Life30 Sep 2026 · Essay
The Right Context, Not All of It
Written deliberately as a lesson rather than a product story, taught through The Curator v3.80.0.
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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 Life28 Jun 2026 · Essay
Chasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the Code
We 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.
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.
From Lab to Life7 Apr 2026 · Essay
Three Philosophies, One Goal; A Practitioner's Comparison of Augment Code, Claude Code, and Codex CLI
A practitioner's comparison of three coding-agent philosophies.
Research15 Mar 2026 · Paper
Chasing Jarvis: Can Technically Sophisticated Non-Programmers Deploy SaaS Applications Using AI Coding Agents? An Empirical Investigation Through Context Engineering and the Lumina AI Case Study
The empirical study behind the non-developer thesis.
From Lab to Life24 Nov 2025 · Essay
Chasing Jarvis: The Three Missing Pieces in AI Coding Agents
A Two-Year Journey From Fiction to Reality (and the Creativity Blockers Still Holding Us Back)
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From Lab to Life7 Sep 2025 · Essay
The Year I Started Coding with AI: My Coding Agent Journey
A personal narrative of the shift from "learning to code" to "directing intelligence", tracing the tools from early agents to orchestration.
From Lab to Life13 Aug 2025 · Essay
Understanding Large Language Models: A Complete Manual
A complete non-technical manual on LLMs. Covers how they work and what they are not, the training process, in-context learning, and the "stochastic parrot" debate.