How to Build Reliable AI Products: A Production Engineering Guide
AI demos are easy. Reliable AI products are an engineering problem.
Notes written while doing the work.
Technical posts, product decisions, and honest observations — written while building, not after.
Start here
The best place to start if you want to understand how I think and work.
How Chrome Extensions Actually Work in 2026 (Manifest V3 Explained)
MV3 is four moving parts — manifest, service worker, content scripts, and UI — not a single script tag anymore.
Personal Page - From Personal Site to Product
Stop presenting projects. Start shipping a system that compounds trust.
Build in public
Build log
What shipped, what broke, and what changed — written as it happened.
Added the notes distribution layer
Notes now have a clear cross-post path for LinkedIn and X, plus copyable post text. The goal is simple: publish once on the site, then drive attention back to the owned page.
Added demo media slots to product pages
ResistGate and Amethyst now have explicit demo sections using real screenshots, with room to replace them later with GIFs or recorded walkthroughs.
Published 3 pillar posts on AI engineering
Wrote three long-form pieces targeting the gaps I see in production AI work: reliable product design, agent architecture patterns, and prompt engineering for real inputs. These are the things I keep explaining to people. Now they are linkable.
AI engineering
What AI features look like when regular people use them in real life.
API vs MCP: When Should You Use Each?
Use the interface that matches who's reading — humans, software, or agents.
How I Would Build an Agent-Readable Personal Hub From Scratch
Start with the data model, then expose the same truth through pages, APIs, MCP tools, and examples.
Chrome extensions
Practical guides for Manifest V3, privacy-first browser tools, and extension distribution.
How to Publish a Chrome Extension to the Web Store in 2026 (Full Checklist)
The Web Store review is a product gate — privacy policy, assets, and MV3 compliance matter as much as your code.
How I Built ResistGate: A Chrome Extension That Makes You Earn Distractions
Real products need friction by design — ResistGate makes you type before distraction, not just block URLs.
Product decisions
Pricing, product choices, and what I've learned trying to make things people actually buy.
I Turned My Personal Hub Into an Agent-Readable Surface
A personal site should not only be browsed by people. It should also be legible to the tools people use to discover, evaluate, and remember work.
The Future of Personal Websites Is APIs
Your website should not only be visited. It should be callable.
Systems design
Architecture tradeoffs, primitives over complexity, and durable system patterns.
Content Kit: Personal Hub MCP and Public API
A technical launch is easier to distribute when the story, snippets, and proof points are already packaged.
Security Lessons From Making My Personal Hub Agent-Readable
The first rule of agent-readable systems: do not give the agent more power than it needs.
How I think
How I make decisions, stay focused, and keep moving without a team.
How I Handle Payments as a Solo Founder (ResistGate & Amethyst)
PayPal subscriptions, webhooks, and a Postgres entitlements table — the smallest stack that unlocks Pro in the extension.
The Payment Stack at Each Revenue Stage (ResistGate & Amethyst)
Freemius, Paddle, and custom PayPal each fit a different MRR band — pick the stage you're in, not the stack you wish you had.
How I work
Sleep, routines, learning, and what actually keeps me at full capacity.