There’s also another side to all of this. While doing the operator/advisory work, I’ve also been quietly building with AI. Agents, systems, experiments, and a whole lot of tinkering that probably makes me look a bit cooked to normal people. That’s what The Markdown is for:

i landed in Sri Lanka recently and my dad's house looked like a warehouse. There were fog machines on the dining table, laser lights in every corner and omg his phone didnt stop going off! Turns out he'd built up 2,311 customers all through WhatsApp. No website, no shop front

So i figured i'd build him a proper ecommerce site. Then i realised we didn't have any nice photos of the products. Lol, how do you photograph a laser light for a product catalogue? Professional shoots were going to cost way too much for 33 products. So before i built the

So that website sprint took 72 hours. I wouldnt say i vibe coded the whole thing with Claude Code. By then i had built a development framework for myself from all the micro apps i was creating. I would dare say it was agentic development but no i think i'm still a little while

My last code commits were in 2008. Before that, 2003. Things have escalated considerably haha

Building a website for your dad sounds like a nice weekend project. Until there's real revenue and 2,311 real customers on the line.. and importantly a brand! I built him this website but that was never the product. It was the first piece of infrastructure so he didn't have to

Claude code has a new /buddy feature and now i dont feel so alone

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goodbye wisprflow and superwisper