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Notes on doing AI properly

Writing on AI infrastructure, brand voice, and building systems that sound like you - not like everyone else. No hype, no income claims, no secret systems.

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I built an app that tells dad jokes. It's the most serious thing I've made.

Landing a dad joke reliably is a brutal voice test. Pulling it off is the exact voice infrastructure I build in the first stage of an AI Blueprint.

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I lost 40 chillies to a bad build. So I started again, properly.

A bad build wiped 40 of my chillies. Rebuilding the Chilli Index with Claude taught me why the plan, not the prompt, is the real work - and what that means for an AI Product Sprint.

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