The Agentic Software Factory
I have spent the last two years at Intuit designing and building the foundational components of an agentic software factory. For a good part of that time I could not have told you what the finished thing was called. I...
Brushwise, and the day it contradicted itself
Brushwise went on sale at 1:06 this morning while I was asleep. Nobody pressed a button. I’d set it to release on approval, so App Review finished and the store put it up on its own. It’s free, on the iPhone, and it walks...
The vision model I can't ship
There’s a plush octopus in a bobble hat sitting on my desk. I pointed my phone at it, pressed the shutter, and the phone said: “a plush toy of an orange octopus wearing a blue and black striped hat and scarf, holding a...
Corpospeak, my first app on the App Store
At 2:41 this morning, Apple approved my first app. It’s called Corpospeak: In Your Voice, and it’s free. You talk, and it says your sentence back to you as fluent corporate jargon, in a clone of your own voice. Say...
I wrote a book for one person
About ten years ago I wrote a book for Manning, on Selenium. It took me something like a hundred hours, most of them evenings and weekends. That book was written the way books have always been written: by one person...