I Spent All Day Building a Button You're Not Allowed to Press
Day one of the actual app. Eight AIs reviewed the plan, I revised it three times — and the one button on screen does nothing. As designed.
// Pillar III — Signal
Building in public. The story behind the build — what I'm making, why, and the part I'm giving away. Honest, not a pitch.
Day one of the actual app. Eight AIs reviewed the plan, I revised it three times — and the one button on screen does nothing. As designed.
Six AIs reviewed the rules I build by. The best thing they showed me wasn't a gap to fill. It was how much to tear out.
An AI wrote my fix; four more reviewed it. None could do the one thing that proves software works — be the person using it.
An AI rebuilt my whole site in an afternoon, live. The hard part wasn't the building. It was knowing when it was wrong.
I described a bug, an AI wrote the fix, I watched it go live. Then I said the quiet part out loud: there's no app on my phone to open.
I talk to my phone now. On purpose. The AI mirror I'm building, why it nags me with citations, and the 51% I'm giving away — current user count: zero.