Notes on solo development in the AI era, AI infrastructure, and what it actually takes to build a full stack from scratch — one rider, in the open.
Bot defense asks one question — human or machine? A class of tools shipping in the open makes it unanswerable: the agent acts inside your own logged-in session, as you. The internet of people is becoming an internet of agents — and we're policing it for the wrong thing.
ArgumentShared memory, a task queue, a direct function call, a polling loop — every obvious way to make AI agents coordinate quietly breaks. The one that survives is a message protocol. Argued from the failure modes, with the real protocol.
Deep diveNot one agent in a chat window — a team of isolated agents that coordinate over a live message protocol and are governed by a versioned repo of policies. With interaction diagrams and the real protocol.
FeaturedEveryone became a solo founder by renting the stack. I built the stack. A builder's log on owning a whole AI platform solo — server, database, Rust ML training — and managing the one AI agent that runs it.
Client workMy first commercial build, shipped solo: a client's requirements turned into a regulated, live SaaS in eleven days — 30k-part catalog, deterministic decision engine, compliance on day one. The case for hiring one AI-CTO instead of a team.
Case studyTwo AI agents owning two isolated projects, coordinated by a cheap live messenger and a durable git control-plane. One of them found a platform bug the platform's own author could not see — the real payoff of a second worker.
More dispatches on AI infra, Rust ML, and agent methodology are on the way.