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I write Chibi Things on Substack. Tiny tools and toys I build with AI, and what I learn about working with AI along the way. Every new Thing gets a post: what it does, why I made it, and how AI helped make it.
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Before October 7, 2026, this newsletter was Unbothered by AI: essays on working with AI.
- I Asked AI to Read My Work Journal. It Noticed A Lot I Didn’t. Keeping a short daily log gives AI something real to look at, and its feedback gets a lot more useful.
- I have developer brain. I’m trying to grow founder brain. I found an unexpected use for AI: rehearsing how to respond using “founder brain.”
- Stop starting over with AI Every good result has a setup. I built Koubou so you don’t have to keep rebuilding yours.
- AI built my homepage. Then the real work started. This is what human + AI collaboration actually looks like when you are building something you care about.
- Done, In Progress, & Not Started are not enough A more nuanced way to track work so AI stays useful instead of creating mess.
- What If You Could Change the Software You Use, Just by Asking? A thought experiment about one way the future of software could go.
- The Difference Between an AI Feature and an Actual Advantage “Tactical edge” has weight because it points to a real person doing real work. That’s the standard AI at work should meet.
- None of that was in the prompt I'll show you exactly what "implied context" is so you can get better results from AI.
- Stop Telling AI How Tell it what you want to happen. Let it figure out how to get there.
- What Does This Actually Need to Do? Your task and the goal are not the same thing. The prompt needs to know.
- The Prompt You Almost Sent Make it a habit to think for 30 seconds before you write your prompts.
- One Cupcake Changed Everything And how does it help with AI?
- The Right Model Isn't the Best Model A five-gate system for matching task to model... and stopping the habit of reaching for Opus because it's easiest.
- The AI Dance The back-and-forth between you and AI isn't a workflow. It's a skill.
- Decline a Meeting Without Making It Weird You got an invite.
- AIBL in 5 Minutes A working knowledge of the syntax behind every cheat code I publish.
- What “Poor Results” from AI Means There's a 47-year-old theory that explains why your AI keeps disappointing you.
- Let a Japanese Mom Planning a Birthday Party Explain Context in AI A step-by-step scenario teaching how context creates the best results from AI.
- Context: The Cause of Most “AI Sucks” Moments You’ve Ever Had What humans leave out, AI can't fill in. That's where 80% of bad outputs come from.
- What I Told A Friend Starting A Business. Plan To Be Humbled. The unglamorous truths about launching anything, even when AI is all over the place.