I didn't start because of AI. I was already building when it arrived.

Then AI came and reframed everything. New tools. New possibilities. A new story about what the market would reward. I leaned in — harder than most, because I had more to prove.

I have seven freeCodeCamp tutorials live.

Not drafts. Not unpublished. Live. With real readers, real comments, real engagement.

I built an SEO audit agent from scratch — Python, Browser Use, Playwright, the Claude API — evolved it through three versions, documented every failure. I built a production RAG system with hybrid search, multimodal vision, and a native MCP server, running on Cloudflare for about $5 a month. Not a demo. Not a tutorial project. Something anyone could deploy today. I built a federated knowledge commons. A suite of Claude Code skills because the defaults weren't good enough for how I actually work.…