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Every edition,
in order.

From the first experiment to the questions emerging from the work now.

Latest editions

9 editions
  1. Edition 24The Thing I Built Wasn't the Point.When I started writing Late to AI, I told everyone I used to fix boilers and was now building AI systems.
  2. Edition 23I Stopped Treating Confidence as Proof.The first useful piece of evidence was a 404.
  3. Edition 22My AI Agents Started Creating Work for Me.I have told part of this story before.
  4. Edition 21At Some Point, Thinking Has to Become Work.The website was finished.
  5. Edition 20The Messy Bit Was the Important Bit.We were rebuilding the Late2AI website when I spotted a phrase that looked completely reasonable.
  6. Edition 19I Built Somewhere for the Mess to Live.The computer crashed.
  7. Edition 18I Gave My AI a Memory. It Still Forgot the Point.Once I had finally found better words for the problem, the answer seemed obvious.
  8. Edition 17I Changed the AI. The Problem Stayed.When something is not working with AI, there is a very tempting answer.
  9. Edition 16The Chat Wants a QueueWhat happened when one conversation became three chats, three documents and three different versions of the truth.

Part one

15 editions
  1. 01

    I used to fix boilers. Now I'm building AI systems. Here's what happened in between.

  2. 02

    Dyslexia and AI

  3. 03

    The First Script

  4. 04

    Before I Built Anything, I Was a Tourist

  5. 05

    The Therapy Session

  6. 06

    The Wrong Database

  7. 07

    I built my AI system on Notion. Then I had to migrate it.

  8. 08

    The Agent Problem

  9. 09

    Night School

  10. 10

    What Survived

  11. 11

    What I Built Instead

  12. 12

    It Felt Like Progress

  13. 13

    Good Foundations, No Fundamentals

  14. 14

    The Promise It Forgot

  15. 15

    AI Is Like Everything Else