FI Beacon progress and practical lessons from using AI in product development.
I have been using AI to code more and more, and one small thing keeps bothering me. Not the quality of the code. Not even the prompting part. The weird part is what happens **while the code is being generated**. That in-between time feels stranger than I expected. I am still in the task, but I a...
When I first started building FI Beacon with AI, I did not begin by handing over full features and wishing everyone the best. I started in a much more cautious way. I would decide what small piece to build, guide the AI through it, and control the work layer by layer. First one change. Then anoth...
When people hear that I use AI to build apps, they often picture one magical prompt followed by a suspicious amount of confidence. That would be nice. What I actually learned is much less dramatic and much more useful: AI gets a lot better when the project already knows how to explain itself. Th...
When people hear that I built FI Beacon with AI, they might imagine I had some brilliant master plan from day one. I did not. What I actually had was a server, some free time, curiosity about AI, and a vague feeling that I should probably build *something* before AI became even smarter and starte...
