An Agentic Development

What will you find here?

A total lack of self-styled guru or influencer bravado. I don’t know better than you. No one does. You know yourself best. The frameworks and philosophies and even coding tips that I will provide should be tested in the crucible of your lived experience and anything that doesn’t work should be immediately jettisoned with no reservations.

Still, you’ll find value in this publication if you are attempting to develop agency or develop software with AI agents.

As I build the apps that will accompany my APTITUDE project (what Ken Wilber would call a Free Will line of intelligence), you’ll get to learn from my mistakes, insights, and epiphanies as I teach myself tools like OpenAI’s Codex and ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

And while I have 7 years of experience coding professionally, this will also be an experiment to see if I can actually learn from what I’m doing in order to transition my career from what amounts to “Junior Developer” to a full-on Full-Stack Engineer.

In other words, I am not going to be Vibe Coding.

Wherever possible, I am treating the AI Agents I spin up like a team of Junior Devs that I am personally leading. Where I find myself beyond the depth afforded to me by professional experience, I am binge-learning Full-Stack Engineering concepts and lingo.

I’ll share my techniques for getting the Agents to adhere to best practices, and I’ll share my strategies for developing your own competence from studying the actual good ideas AI has.

You might also expect some book reviews. Some of the books I’ve read to prepare for the coding interview that I hope will be generated through all this work have been incredibly helpful (like Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y Bhargava), not just for grinding LeetCode, but for all my pair programming with Anthropic and OpenAI.

Won’t you join the journey?

If all that sounds like fun, please do subscribe.

Let’s develop our agency together with a little help from the agents that our soon-to-be Robot Overlords are still letting us play with. Let’s figure out how to be Sovereign so we can do what we came here to, rather than consume, purchase, and scroll through what our civilization is dishonestly manipulating us into wanting.

We won’t be satisfied through by anything we eat from an algorithmic feed. Instead, let’s learn, let’s grow, and let’s build something: our own comfortable, sovereign future.