Who's writing this?

I'm Chris, a Pittsburgh marketer with about 20 years in the business, a couple of kids, and too many cats.

In 2025 I started building things with AI: Space Invaders, dashboards, now a robot. I'm not trying to become an engineer. I just want to be the person who can build the thing instead of making a deck about it.

What this is

A public build log. A dude trying hard to go from not technical to not not technical. Every other Sunday I publish one entry: what I built with AI, what broke, and what I learned fixing it.

I'm writing it in public for two reasons. Explaining a thing is the fastest way to find out whether I actually understand it. And if you're starting from the same place I did, the wrong turns are probably more useful to you than the wins.

The scoreboard

Every entry keeps score: hours spent building, things shipped, things broken, and the number of times I had to stop and ask "wait, what does that mean?" The totals on the home page add themselves up from each entry. I don't get to fudge them.

This site is homework too

I built this site as one of the projects, and the code is public. If you want to see how it works, or how many tries it took, the source is on GitHub.

If you're on the same road, come along. One email every other Sunday, and you can start with the log.