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The Proof Is In What Ships

Anyone can list the AIs they pay for. What matters is what makes it out the door. Here's what's live — each one built with AI as a force multiplier, not a novelty.

A Decade of iOS

9 Apps Shipped · 10M+ Users

The iceberg most people don't see. From the Annual Bible Lectureship app presented at University Scholars Day (2015) and Food Fight at SDX, through EiValue at Energy Sense Finance, Wired at It Works!, Vimvest and Monorail (still live), side projects like RedSwipe and Casanova, and finally CBS Sports — where the app reaches millions daily. See the full timeline →

Peanut Gallery

Live · Chrome Web Store

A four-seat AI writers' room that watches YouTube with you and reacts in real time. Built in response to a $5,000 open bounty from Jason Calacanis and Lon Harris on This Week in Startups. Multi-provider LLM stack, rule-based Director routing, sub-300ms transcription. peanutgallery.live

Local SEO Practice

3 Clients Ranking Page One

Developer-implemented SEO for a roofing company, a dual-language academy, and a WNC real estate broker. Schema, Core Web Vitals, crawlability fixes — AI-augmented research, hand-finished code. See the approach →

Kyra's Corner

30K+ Subscribers · 12.6M Lifetime Views

Channel manager and video editor for a children's YouTube channel grown to 30,000+ subscribers. AI-assisted thumbnail iteration, title testing, and pipeline cuts — where machine-speed iteration compounds into audience growth.

Plus a community events aggregator for Franklin, NC — early and shipping quietly in the background.

Each of these required different tools for different jobs. The skill isn't in subscribing to every AI platform — it's in knowing which one to reach for, when to trust the output, and when to throw the generated code away and write it yourself. Fluency beats inventory.

Case Study: AI-Powered Physical Problem Solving

How I used AI to 3D print a missing part for a bed remote

My adjustable bed remote was missing its button pad. Rather than spending $50+ on a replacement remote, I used AI to design and 3D print a replacement part — for pennies in filament.

Step 1: Claude AI

Described the problem and measurements. Claude generated OpenSCAD code for the replacement parts.

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Step 2: OpenSCAD

Rendered and refined the 3D model, iterating on dimensions until the fit was precise.

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Step 3: STL Export

Exported the verified model as an STL file for 3D printing. Download the STL

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Step 4: G-Code

Sliced the STL into printer instructions. Printed on a consumer 3D printer.

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Step 5: Result

Perfect-fit replacement part. Remote works like new.

Original bed remote with worn, degraded buttons
Original remote — missing button pad
Precise measurements diagram for the button pad design
AI-generated measurement diagram for precise fit
OpenSCAD 3D model of the replacement button pad
OpenSCAD 3D model — generated by Claude AI
Fixed remote with 3D-printed replacement part
Fixed — 3D-printed replacement part, works like new
This is what AI-native problem solving looks like. It's not about chatbots — it's about using AI as a thinking partner across the entire pipeline from problem definition to physical output.

AI-Powered Chrome Extension: Peanut Gallery

A four-seat AI writers' room that watches YouTube with you and reacts in real time. Built in response to Jason Calacanis and Lon Harris's $5,000 open bounty on This Week in Startups — a Chrome Manifest-V3 extension that captures tab audio silently, transcribes it, and routes each chunk through a rule-based Director that picks which of four AI personas fires next. Live at peanutgallery.live and on the Chrome Web Store.

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Claude Haiku

Producer · Joker · Director Routing

Powers the reasoning-heavy personas: a fact-checker that scores sentences, fires search queries, and returns corrections with attribution — plus a comedy writer that applies eight joke techniques to generate data-driven punchlines. Also drives the optional LLM-assisted persona router within a 400ms budget.

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Claude Design Agent

Visual Identity · Design System

Anthropic's Claude Design agent collaborated on the v1.5 "Broadsheet" rebrand — iterating on typography (Anton, Oswald, Special Elite, Source Serif 4), the cream-paper-and-ink palette, and the newsprint composition grid. Claude Design shaped the look; I engineered the behavior.

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Grok 4.1 Fast

Troll · Sound FX Personas

Powers the reflexive personas — the contrarian provocateur and the bracket-delimited sound-effect caller. Non-reasoning model chosen for punchy, low-latency output where speed matters more than deliberation.

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Deepgram Nova-3

Real-Time Transcription

Streams PCM audio from the tab capture through a WebSocket for sub-300ms first-byte transcription. The latency budget is what makes the whole experience feel live instead of delayed.

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Brave / xAI Live Search

Fact-Checking · Citations

User-selectable search backends for the Producer persona. Claude Haiku scores claims, fires parallel search queries, and cross-references results before returning corrections with citations — turning the extension into a live fact-checker, not just a commentator.

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The Director

Orchestration · Rhythm

The moat. A rule-based "booth producer" scores each transcript chunk against persona specialties, picks a lead, then cascades to others with staggered timing and decreasing probability (50% → 35% → 20%). Creates natural variation — some moments get one reaction, others a pile-on. This is where "four AIs" becomes "a writers' room."

Four personas, two LLM providers, one design agent, one transcription engine, one search pipeline — all orchestrated to run at ~$1.15 per two-hour episode. Multi-provider by design: Claude where reasoning matters, Grok where reflex matters, and a Director that makes the whole thing feel like a room of writers instead of a wall of chatbots.

What I Can Do With AI

Code Generation & Review

Using AI to write, review, and refactor code across Swift, Python, JavaScript, and more.

3D Modeling & Fabrication

Generating OpenSCAD models, STL files, and G-Code for 3D printing solutions.

SEO & Content Strategy

AI-augmented keyword research, content optimization, and competitive analysis.

Research & Analysis

Deep research across multiple AI models, cross-referencing outputs for accuracy.

Workflow Automation

Building AI-powered pipelines that connect multiple tools and platforms.

Rapid Prototyping

Using AI to go from idea to working prototype faster than traditional development.

AI doesn't replace expertise — it multiplies it. A decade of software development means I know what to ask for, how to evaluate the output, and when the AI is wrong. That combination of deep domain knowledge and AI fluency is rare, and it's what I bring to every project.

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