About
I’m Josh. I build real things — websites, apps, small tools, automations — mostly with AI, and I write about how they actually get made: the timeline, the method, the mistakes, and the parts worth copying.
Everything I write about here, I did. The food-truck site is a real site for a real friend. The apps are deployed, and I use them. The security holes I found were real holes in my own work. When I say I shipped something, there’s a live link or a screenshot behind it — receipts, not claims.
About the writing — and where AI fits
I want to be upfront about something, because honesty is kind of the whole point of this site: I use an AI model to help me write these posts.
Here’s what that means — and what it doesn’t.
The experiences are mine. The builds, the decisions, the dead ends, the things I got wrong and fixed — those happened to me, at my keyboard, on real projects. AI didn’t have them; I did. What AI helps me with is getting them onto the page: drafting, structuring, tightening a rambling paragraph into a clear one. It’s an assistant to the writing, not the author of the experience.
And I read and approve every word before it goes live. If a draft says something that isn’t true, or frames me as something I’m not, it gets fixed or cut — I’ve done exactly that more than once. The judgment, the facts, and the final yes are mine.
I think that’s the honest way to use these tools: let them help you say the true thing more clearly, and never let them invent a thing that didn’t happen. The receipts on this site are real. The words had help. Both of those can be true at once, and I’d rather tell you than have you wonder.
If you’re building with AI too and want to compare notes, I’m easy to find on LinkedIn.