27 Apr 2026
Borrowed competence
AI makes you faster at your job today while quietly degrading your ability to know when the job was done wrong. The more you delegate, the less equipped you are to catch the mistakes that matter.
I'm Mitchell, a full-stack AI Software Engineer.
I design, develop and ship practical AI systems that cut manual work and improve margins. My focus: small, verifiable wins that go live fast, then scale. If you need a developer that knows what to build and why, let's talk.
19 Apr 2026
AI never flinches
Humans telegraph uncertainty through hesitation, hedging, and tone. AI delivers hallucinated nonsense with the same polished authority as correct answers. Organisations built to read confidence as competence have no antibodies for this.
15 Apr 2026
The levelling trap
AI narrows the performance gap between junior and senior workers. That sounds like progress — until you realise nobody is building the expertise that made senior workers valuable in the first place.
12 Apr 2026
New engine, old factory
The 5% of companies seeing real returns from AI spend 70% of their effort on process redesign and organisational change, not on the technology. Everyone else is repeating the same mistake factories made when they swapped steam engines for electric motors but kept the old floor plan.
8 Apr 2026
Organisations run on workarounds
Your processes work because your people compensate for them. AI can't compensate — so every dysfunction your team has been quietly routing around becomes a blocking error the moment you deploy it.
5 Apr 2026
Your AI project failed. Good.
Most AI projects fail — and the failure itself is the most valuable thing they produce. When AI breaks down in your organisation, it's pointing directly at the structural problems you need to fix.
Projects
- Project
- doyaken-cli
- Description
- A standalone multi-project autonomous agent CLI that delivers working code through an 8-phase pipeline. Install once, use on any project.
- Project
- lofield.fm
- Description
- Create lofi beats using natural language. Just describe what you want, and AI generates the music for you.
- Project
- launchonomy
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- A system for orchestrating AI agents to complete "missions" through consensus driven decision-making and workflow automation.
- Project
- pitchplease
- Description
- A Next.js app and Agentic AI workflow for uploading a pitch deck and turning it into a AI generated video, with voiceover and narrator.
- Project
- inbox-triage-extension
- Description
- Triage your inbox with AI-powered email summaries, attachment analysis, and reply drafts - all processed locally for complete privacy.
- Project
- agentic-commerce-protocol
- Description
- RFC: Fulfilment for the Agentic Commerce Protocol - defines the fulfilment lifecycle (order confirmation, shipment, delivery, returns), agent↔merchant messages, and state transitions.
Work
- Company
- AI Product Engineer
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- Start-ups / Scale-ups
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- Company
- Full-stack Product Engineer
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- Start-ups / Scale-ups
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- Company
- UX/UI Designer / Front-end Developer
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- Enterprise Technology
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