London · Fontainebleau
Writing
Essays on building with AI - written here, hosted here. Own work only.
What being good at applied AI really means
Being good at applied AI is not a score you can claim. It comes down to three things: a permanent beginner's mind, something you have actually built, and the range to steal from everyone.
How I build - a tiered crew of AI, and the gates that keep it honest
A foreman, a builder, a rival-lab adversary, and four deterministic gates - how I run software projects without reading every line the AI writes.
My CLAUDE.md explained - a tour of my personal AI operating system
The vault, the home server, the skills, and the hooks - what each layer does and why the whole thing compounds.
Building NightDraft - an AI that answers a restaurant's email
The build log: teaching a system to write in someone else's voice, and what good enough to send really means.
Food
I'm a curious person and don't only write about AI. I love food as well.
Welcome to The Fat Badger, London's new invite-only pub
The Public House Group's invite-only room above Canteen, and why a place that shouldn't work does.
DFL Chronicles (Down from London)
Down to Dartmouth with Mitch Tonks, via Brixham fish market and a second brandy at 8am.
A night at The Deli
One quiet night in, abandoned. What happens when your local wine shop knows your table number.