Field notes
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Practical notes on building software with AI — from 17 years of shipping, and the last few of doing it with a model in the loop.
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Notes from building TesseraSnap: Rust against the raw Win32 API, cross-compiled from macOS, packaged as MSIX in CI for the Microsoft Store.
The machine does the work, a person signs off
A pattern for putting AI into workflows with real consequences: paper mode first, approval queues, and decisions explained in plain English.
Hello, world: what TappsAI is and why it exists
TappsAI is a small, AI-first software studio. Here's what we build, how we build it, and what this blog will cover.