Building in public

You have read fifteen stories. Every number, every win, every honest miss, I put out in public on purpose. This last one is about why I build that way, and how you can be part of what comes next.

Why I build in the open

Three reasons, and I believe all three.

First, it keeps me honest. When the work is public, I cannot quietly round the numbers up. Story nine has my little model writing confidently wrong code, right there for anyone to see. Story ten admits the model learned my voice but not my facts. Those admissions are the point. Real numbers and real misses are what make the wins worth trusting.

Second, it is the best way to teach. The barrier is learning, as story twelve laid out. You do not learn much from a polished result with the work hidden. You learn from watching someone do the real thing, with the real steps and the real dead ends. So I show the steps.

Third, it builds trust that compounds. You have followed how I think across this whole arc. By now you know whether I am worth listening to, because you watched, not because I claimed it.

How you can be part of it

Building in public only works if the door swings both ways. So here is how you get in.

The roadmap is public. You can see what I am building right now, what has already shipped, and what is planned next. Nothing is hidden behind a “coming soon.” Take a look at the roadmap.

You can vote with your dollars. Sponsorship runs as simple monthly tiers, from $10 a month up to $100. Sponsoring a lane moves it up my list. You are not just donating. You are helping decide what I build next. That is on the sponsor page.

And the stories keep coming. If you want each new one as I write it, the subscribe box is right below this.

The whole loop, in one picture

This is the method, start to finish. I build in the open. You watch, you learn from it, and you help shape it. The frontier, folded down to your desk, built with you, not just for you.

That is the end of the arc, for now. Where you go next is up to you. Pick one of the four levers and pull it. Read a book. Run the open kit. Try a custom model. Or back a lane on the roadmap and help steer it.

And if you are just arriving, you can start at the very beginning of the journey, the year the gap between paid and open AI began to close: The year the gap closed.