From Lab to Life20 Jul 2026 · Essay
From 0 to Dev in One Day: What a Real Coding Harness Actually Looks Like
A summer manual for the curious non-developer who keeps seeing people build apps out of thin air and wondering: could I actually do that?
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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 Life22 Jun 2026 · Essay
I Built Auto Loops Before They Had a Name
How Claude Code plus Playwright via MCP became an autonomous testing loop in early 2025, before "loop engineering" had a name.
From Lab to Life14 Jun 2026 · Essay
Blueprint of a Frontier Coding Agent
Inside the machinery that powers modern AI development, and why understanding it matters even if you never write a line of code
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.
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.
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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From Lab to Life17 Feb 2026 · Essay
From One Agent to Coding Agent Armies: My 15-Month Journey to AI Orchestration
How Augment Code’s Intent Just Changed Everything — Again
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.
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)
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).
From Lab to Life11 Aug 2025 · Essay
The Claude Desktop Coding Agent Experiment: Early Results & Context Management Lessons
The Claude Desktop coding-agent experiment. Documents the real productivity gains alongside the quality constraints: what worked in conversational programming, where human oversight was still required, and why context management was the deciding factor.