If you’ve stumbled onto this blog, here’s what you need to know: this is not a finished product. It’s a construction site — and I’m inviting you in.
Over the past several months I’ve been building LUMIS, my personal AI assistant, from scratch. Not using an off-the-shelf app. Not plugging into someone else’s platform. Actually building it — the memory system, the research pipeline, the content tools, even the bot that sent me a reminder to write this post.
I’ve been writing software for more than 25 years. I know how to build things. What I didn’t know — what none of us really knew until recently — is how fast AI changes the rules of what’s possible for a single person working alone.
That’s what this blog is about.
Each post will cover something real — a problem I ran into, a decision I made, something that worked or spectacularly didn’t. The Building LUMIS series is where most of that will live, but it won’t stop there. If something in the AI or software engineering space catches my attention — a new tool, an interesting pattern, a trend worth thinking through — I’ll write about that too. Always through my own lens, always with my own take. This is not a news feed or a roundup. It’s a point of view.
No gatekeeping. No “I figured it all out and here’s the answer.” Just honest documentation of a journey that’s still very much in progress.
If you’re building something with AI — or thinking about it — pull up a chair.
Let’s figure it out together.