§Builds · The Lab
Not AI news — my own work. What I built, tested, broke, fixed, and shipped, plus the lesson each one left behind. New entries as new things ship.
A marketing-hook generator I built fast and used as a live coding-model comparison. One agent got it most of the way in a day; a second had to finish the job and harden it for production.
An OpenAI-compatible proxy that inspects each prompt with a cheap model first, then routes it to the least expensive tier that can actually handle the job.
The site you're reading was built by a coding agent working from a spec: a full personal-brand site, a design system, SEO, and a Vercel deploy — in one pass.