I’ve spent a lifetime building software and learning new tools. Now I’m exploring what AI makes possible—and what might be just beginning.
Start with the story
Looking for the next curve
I’m interested in the bottom of the next S curve: the stage where a new approach is taking shape, progress is uneven and its uses are still being discovered. AI is the starting point for that question. What changes when software can work toward an outcome, adapt to a situation or help us explore an unfamiliar idea? I want to find out by building, trying and paying attention.
A lifetime in software gives me a place to start, and plenty of assumptions to revisit. I want to use that experience to explore what AI makes possible, while staying open to ideas that don’t look like the software I’ve built before.
Read the story ↗02 / The next curveThe next advance may first appear as something awkward, limited or difficult to explain. Which limitations are temporary? What becomes useful when they ease? I’m looking for questions worth testing, with room to change my mind.
Read the note ↗03 / The experimentCould software take on a whole task? Could an interface change around the person using it? Could one person explore a problem that once needed a team? These are possibilities to investigate. A small experiment can reveal where the promise holds up and where more work is needed.
Read the note ↗A working approach
A task, assumption or limitation that might be ready for a different approach.
Choose a small question. Build enough to see what happens.
Record what worked, what failed and what would make the next attempt worthwhile.
These apps came out of my early AI automation workflows where my question was can AI build useful apps for the app store?. They were built, tested and distributed from inception to the Apple App Store almost entirely by AI agents. They’re useful things in their own right, and a starting point for wider questions about how software is built and what it could become.
A voice-first scratchpad for the little details you need right now.
A measurement. A parking spot. The reason you went into the next room. Some details need somewhere to wait, without becoming another permanent note.
Meet Hold That Thought
Three goals for today. Kept in view on iPhone, Apple Watch, and widgets.
A day can fill up before the important things get a look in. This gives three goals a place in plain sight, then makes room for a fresh start tomorrow.
Meet My Big 3A conversation between builders
What are you noticing that feels early, uncertain and worth exploring? If you’re trying something—or reconsidering what software could be—I’d like to compare notes.
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