Notes on building production software with AI in the loop — what worked, what didn’t, and the systems that kept me in control.
A beginner tutorial that builds one product browser from static JSX up — and introduces Ant Design, Redux Toolkit, and RTK Query only after the plain React code each one replaces.
Read the postWhy one long correction-heavy AI chat doesn't scale, and how a fixed pipeline of skills, subagents, and reference material fixes it — walked through with a fictional CRO landing-page example.
Read the postThe stack, the six-step spec-first workflow, and the verification habits that made Unboxed a codebase I actually trust — even though an AI coding agent wrote most of it.
Read the postI built Unboxed, a small board-game rental site for Metro Manila, run by just me — GCash payment and Lalamove delivery checked by hand. The decisions that made it a real, shippable thing.
Read the postI wanted my portfolio deployment to be cheap, fast, and simple enough to actually maintain — the small AWS stack that does exactly that, with no servers, containers, or Terraform.
Read the postThe useful part wasn’t asking AI to write more code. It was giving it a smaller, clearer system to reason inside — then reviewing each decision before it shipped.
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