yes, I plan to open source all the software behind it once I'm sufficiently happy with it.

Now I have more options and tools available to me to solve problems. I’ve built entire new software products. I’ve developed home automation tools. I’ve built my own AI models and mcp servers and done custom training. I’ve *learned* such a tremendous amount just because it removed barriers.

Now if I have a notion, I can use copilot or cursor or Claude or whatever to help me prototype something and validate and idea and then make a real choice to pursue it further or not! It helps me answer the “could I make it work” questions.

Don’t get me wrong I’ve written and shipped plenty of production code but it’s not my thing. So I tend to avoid using it to solve problems and build things unless I have no choice, and a lot of the time that means I just don’t tackle projects or ideas. That just isn’t a thing anymore!

AI as a tool for development is honestly pretty game changing, and I definitely see the arguments for and against… but let me talk about how it has been useful to me. I’m not the best software engineer. Never have been. I’m a really good systems engineer, and I can cobble code together.