17 May 2026
The disclosure penalty
When products announce a feature is AI-powered, they don't build trust — they trigger an evaluation reflex that reduces it. The most adopted AI features in history are the ones nobody thinks of as AI.
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.
15 May 2026
The one-user app
AI will not collapse software into one chat box. It will make software personal, letting people build small tools around edge cases too narrow for any product roadmap. The biggest software market may not be the next billion-user app. It may be the billion one-user apps.
10 May 2026
The easy work was load-bearing
Easy tasks aren't just easy. They train new hires, pace veterans, and keep fundamental skills alive. When AI skims them off, the remaining human work becomes 100% hard cases — and most organisations aren't ready for a workforce that never gets an easy rep.
3 May 2026
The competence penalty
Multiple studies show that workers who use AI are judged as lazier, less skilled, and more replaceable — even when their output is identical. This ancient cognitive bias is silently crippling AI adoption by driving the most productive behaviour underground.
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.
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.
Projects
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- doyaken-cli
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- A standalone multi-project autonomous agent CLI that delivers working code through an 8-phase pipeline. Install once, use on any project.
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- lofield.fm
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- Create lofi beats using natural language. Just describe what you want, and AI generates the music for you.
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- launchonomy
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- A system for orchestrating AI agents to complete "missions" through consensus driven decision-making and workflow automation.
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- pitchplease
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- 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.
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- inbox-triage-extension
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- Triage your inbox with AI-powered email summaries, attachment analysis, and reply drafts - all processed locally for complete privacy.
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- agentic-commerce-protocol
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- RFC: Fulfilment for the Agentic Commerce Protocol - defines the fulfilment lifecycle (order confirmation, shipment, delivery, returns), agent↔merchant messages, and state transitions.
Work
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- AI Product Engineer
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- Start-ups / Scale-ups
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- Full-stack Product Engineer
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- Start-ups / Scale-ups
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- UX/UI Designer / Front-end Developer
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- Enterprise Technology
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