Claude

Comic: a friendly robot receptionist in a headset works a switchboard while the host repairs a laptop in the background, and one gold cable runs past the robot straight to the host's phone. The robot says HE'S BUSY. I'LL TAKE A MESSAGE!

The Robot Answers the Phone (and the Three Silent Days)

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 07 · THE CALLSThe scariest failure isn't the loud one. It's the one where everything looks fine. Why let an AI answer? When I’m under a desk at a client’s office with a screwdriver in my hand, I can’t take a call. Voicemail works, but most people hate leaving one. What I wanted: ...

Comic: the host on a couch at night holds his phone as different-colored musical notes float out of it and contact bubbles orbit him, one with a gold star. He says I KNOW WHO IT IS BY THE SOUND.

Making It Mine

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 06 · THE GOOD PARTOnce it's your app, "I wish it could…" stops being a complaint and turns into a to-do item. Version 0.3, the same night Version 0.2 went live at 6:27 PM on September 23. Version 0.3 went live at 7:38 PM. That hour was mostly testing, because the features had been built that afternoon alongside everything else. Here’s what I got. ...

Comic: the host and three small robots in hard hats rebuild a giant smartphone on a workbench like an engine, with parts labeled SERVER, APP and TESTS. He says ONE AFTERNOON. NO MORE EXCUSES.

Tear It Down, Build It Right

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 05 · THE REBUILDThe app was never the hard part. The hard part was everything the app assumed would just work. Step one: stop asking, start listening The old app asked the server “anything new?” every 10 seconds. The fix is to flip it around and have the server tell the app the moment something arrives. ...

Comic: the host in a headset at 3 AM surrounded by glowing monitors and cold coffee, while a small robot plugs a glowing cable into a tiny server. He asks WE'RE A PHONE COMPANY NOW?

We Built a Phone Company in One Night

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 02 · THE PRACTICE RIGRule one of moving something important: build the new house before you move out of the old one. Don’t practice on the real number Porting a phone number is a one-way door. Once my number left Google Voice, there was no clicking “undo” if the new setup couldn’t ring my phone. So the plan was to build everything on a new number first, live with it, and only move my real number once the new system had proven itself. ...

Isometric pixel-art workshop at night with two robots and a man at a wall of monitors

One Month, Two AI Robots: What Claude and ChatGPT Built for Me

From August 27 to September 26 I ran my IT business and my house with two AI coding agents. They logged 2,197 sessions and 136,476 tool actions and shipped 65 projects. Here’s the whole month, straight from the logs.