Craft, AI, and building in public
Keep your craft. Use AI as an amplifier, not a replacement.
I'm Rob. I've worked with data for well over a decade, and when AI got good my first feeling wasn't excitement. It was that I was taking a math test with a calculator. That feeling never went away. This is where I work it out in public, what I'm building, what I get wrong, and the parts of the craft I'm not handing over.
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01 · Craft + AI
Keeping Your Craft in the Age of AI
AI is brilliant at the information inside a craft, but not the experience of doing it.
02 · Personal AI
Building Your Own AI to Run Your Work
How to build a personal AI that runs your work.
03 · Craft + AI
Who Keeps Their Craft AND Uses AI? Look at the Audit Trail
AI doesn't replace craft.
Latest writing
All writing →No Agent Grades Its Own Work: How I Keep My Craft While Using AI
One rule keeps my craft intact while I use AI on everything: no agent grades its own work. Nothing risky ships until models from other vendors have torn at it.
The Receipts Are the Point
Keeping your craft and using AI aren't opposites. On real projects the craft shows up as one refusal: never trust a single source, including myself.
Building Your Own AI to Run Your Work
How to build a personal AI that runs your work. One that holds your goals, projects, and memory instead of forgetting you every time you close the chat.
The standard
The standard is still craft: taste, ownership, judgment, and the patience to make the thing hold up when the novelty wears off.