Writing
Field notes, page 5 of 6
Page 5 of 6July 9 to July 14, 2026
Working With AI
I put an app on my home screen in a day — here are the six prompts
I built a to-do app and put it on my phone's home screen in a day — six prompts, start to finish. The surprising part wasn't that it worked. It's how loose the prompts were: typos, half-sentences, one that's just "what next?" — and that three of the six could be that sloppy because a system I'd built before the project carried the quality the words left out.
Working With AI
I stopped re-explaining myself to my AI. The fix was one file I write by hand.
Claude and ChatGPT remember things about me now — but it's their memory, built automatically and locked inside one tool. What actually changed how I work was the opposite: a file about myself that I wrote and control. It started as a CLAUDE.md and grew into a second brain.
Build Breakdown
I tried to break my friend's AI-built site — and deleted the hole instead of patching it
Before I let anyone read how I built my friend's ordering site, I had the AI attack it. It found a real hole — the customer's own browser was setting the price. The best fix wasn't a patch. It was a delete.