Workflow on oceanheart.ai

The first feature was a pleasant place to begin

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have been setting up a two-week launch cockpit with my friend Olivia. She has built a substantial creative and educational world, has some timely public opportunities emerging, and is curious about what working with an AI engineer might make possible.

She is creative first, and she should not have to acquire specialist AI or project-management literacy before the collaboration becomes useful.

That creates an easy failure mode. I could assemble a technically impressive collection of agents, automations, databases and dashboards, then ask Olivia to learn the machine before she receives any benefit from it. I would have reduced my own friction by transferring it to her.

Dispatches and deep arcs

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

People sometimes ask how much I use AI. I can now give them an answer without pretending that volume is the same thing as value.

On 23 July 2026 I froze a 37-day snapshot of my private agent telemetry. It contained 2,182 completed assistant turns across 471 identified conversations. I had used an agent on 36 of the 37 days. The median active day contained 47 turns.

Those are large numbers, but they are not the interesting result.

I do not use AI for one thing

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

People keep asking how I use AI, as though there should be one answer.

The obvious answer is software development. I use Claude and Codex for implementation, investigation, refactoring, test design and review. That answer is true, but it now describes a surprisingly small part of the change.

AI has become an input method, a computer interface, a research partner, a set of workers, a component inside customer systems, a review mechanism, a practice opponent and, increasingly, something I build an operating system around.