Prototypes and experiments, each documented at the point it reached a working proof of concept: the question it explored, what it taught me, and why it stopped there.
Can I have a personal coordinator that lives in Telegram and keeps its memory in tools I already own — Google Calendar and Drive — instead of a database I'd have to provision, secure and back up forever?
Can a single editable Markdown file turn into a zoom-and-drill-down presentation — where the heading hierarchy itself defines the camera levels — without a framework or a proprietary tool like Prezi?
As a non-programmer directing AI, can a 'spec-driven' workflow — write the spec first, then a plan, then tasks, then code — make what I build more deliberate and less improvised?
Can I ship a credible marketing site for Escalation Protocol as a single, hand-built HTML file — no framework, no build step — that still reads like mission-control hardware rather than a generic landing page?
As a non-programmer, can I run a whole creative studio as a coordinated system of AI agents — a main orchestrator that routes work to specialized sub-agents, each scoped to its own domain — instead of leaning on one general-purpose assistant?
Can I have a single source of truth for my whole visual language — the colors, the Gorton typeface, the teal accent, and the φ/LiftKit spacing — so every project stays consistent instead of each one drifting off on its own?
I was designing the character line-up for a miniatures campaign aimed at a specific fan community. I had a set of archetypes I liked and that fit the theme beautifully. Before sculpting anything, could I check whether the audience actually wanted them — and would I accept the answer if it said no?
Can I turn video into ASCII art as a deliberate visual style — with control over the character set, gain, gamma, and color-vs-mono — using my own code instead of a third-party tool with murky licensing?
How do I turn my habit of building things to a working proof of concept and then parking them into an asset — instead of a pile of unfinished work that quietly says 'doesn't finish'?
Can I generate harmonious editorial layouts straight from the golden ratio — a tool that hands me the type scale, spacing, and frames already built on φ — instead of eyeballing proportions every single time?
Can I build a playable videogame prototype in the browser — squad combat with an escalating tension system, set in the Escalation Protocol universe — by directing AI as a non-programmer?
I keep borrowing mechanics from Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen for my own game design. But borrowing a mechanic you've only *felt* is guesswork. Could I reverse-engineer its systems properly — write them down as specs — and rebuild the first map to prove I actually understood them?
Every content calendar starts by asking 'what do we post?' — but that skips a step. What dates actually matter to *this* business, and can that question be answered systematically instead of by whoever happens to remember Black Friday?
I already had a visual language for my own work. Could the same discipline be turned into something repeatable — a way to stand up a design system for any brand, and then produce real pieces against it instead of eyeballing every post?
Small streamers are told to 'post more clips' and 'be consistent'. But below a certain size the platform doesn't distribute you at all, so most advice is noise. What actually moves a channel that nobody is being shown?
I direct AI to build software without writing the code myself. So what is actually the limiting factor? I assumed it was the model's ability. It isn't — it's my ability to say precisely what I want in the vocabulary the work happens in.
ZBrush is where I spend my working day, and it has never had the one small thing I kept wanting: a persistent color swatch palette. ZBrush 2026 shipped a new Python SDK. Could an AI agent and I use it to build tools I'd actually keep — and while we were at it, find out where the SDK's real ceiling is?
Every other project in this log points the same method — research, plan, produce, verify — at games and 3D tools. Could it run a marketing engagement end to end? Not a mock-up: a real local business, a real audience, real videos, real money in Meta Ads Manager, and a measurable answer about which creative earns attention cheapest.
Thirteen years of sculpting left me with hundreds of turnaround sheets — multi-view renders of every figure and ship. Publishing them on Instagram means cropping each view into a carousel slide by hand, which is exactly the kind of chore that guarantees it never happens. The intake pipeline for this website already knows how to find the subject inside a sheet. Could the same analysis cut carousels automatically?
Two questions stacked on top of each other. Design: my tabletop universe needed a digital tactics demo, and I decided to borrow 97% of it from XCOM on purpose — grid, two actions, cover, line of sight, overwatch — so that the remaining 3% could be genuinely mine. Tooling: could an AI agent build that in a real game engine, Godot, without me ever having to open the editor to check its work?