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Notes on where our products stand, and what we think about day to day.
A Russian word turned up in one of the drafts. And not only Russian. Then replies started arriving with two stray letters sitting at the top… (laughs). We use Claude from Anthropic for the response side, so this may just be Claude's character.
On 21 October 2026, two vulnerabilities turned up in PHP that allow unauthenticated code execution. Seeing the news, the first thing I did was tell our AI what I had seen and ask whether we were OK. What came back was a prioritised list, and from there all I did was answer “yes” to each item. It was over in tens of minutes — night and day compared with administering servers myself.
I wake up to one more product designed, the remaining pre-launch work listed, and the security check already done. The whole mechanism is just “every day at this hour, do this” — but it means the day starts with progress on the table rather than from nothing. Here are the seven jobs we currently have running.
The posts here are drafted by an AI, and people hear that and assume the whole thing is generated. It is not. Choosing the topic, deciding what there is to say and publishing it are all mine; the AI absorbs the labour. A human blog, made drastically more efficient.
Japanese is the only language I speak. Machine translation lowered the entrance but left me stuck at the exit: I had no way to inspect my own sentences in a language I cannot read. What AI changed was turning “this might not come across” into a problem I can actually work on.