Unreliable Machine

Building AI tools in public. Code, decisions, screwups. All visible.

What This Is

AI-assisted development, documented as it happens. Currently building tools that help AI-generated content not read like AI-generated content. You know, so your outbound doesn't start with "I hope this email finds you well."

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Going Too Fast

Dec 16

The vibe coding trap: when AI velocity creates more work than it saves.

100 Pages of Planning Before Any Code

Dec 12

The MVP shipped. Now it was time to build the real thing. I wrote a hundred pages of planning docs before touching V2.

The Stack

Dec 11

Everything running this site and the vibe coding setup behind it. Three AI models, a voice extractor GPT, five MCP servers, and a lot of git pushes.

Featured Tool

Slop Detector

Your AI-written copy probably has tells that get it deleted on sight. This catches them. Dual-axis scoring: is it AI? Is it good? Different questions.