A crew that never sleeps

Most nights, while I’m asleep, a small crew is still at work in my lab.

They aren’t people. They’re AI agents, each with one job: one writes code, one reviews it, one researches, one keeps the machines healthy, and one draws letters, pixel by pixel. I call them the fleet. I give the direction and judge the taste. They do the long, patient work that used to eat my weekends.

The rule

When software isn’t watched, it fails without anyone noticing. Thirty years of building lab, cloud and AI systems taught me that. So the fleet has one rule above all the others:

Nobody gets to say “done” until code has checked it.

An agent can’t just report that something works. It has to show the test, the measurement or the screenshot that proves it. If a check fails, the agent stops and says so. It may not loosen the check to get a green light. That rule has saved me more times than I can count, and it’s the reason I can trust work I didn’t watch happen.

Proof you’re looking at

This site is one of the things the fleet builds.

• The logo at the top was drawn tile by tile. The letters fall into place like rain, and its little tune is composed from the same animation, so sound and picture always line up.
• The font you’re reading is ours too. The crew drew it one round at a time, and I picked the winners on a review board, heart by heart. Twenty rounds so far, and a few symbols are still on the drawing table.
• The Thai version of the logo, อาร์ตไอแฟบ, came from the same tools, and a native speaker read it before it went live.
• The photo viewer is homemade. There’s no off-the-shelf gallery and no ad trackers. Swipe through an album and it’s all our code.

What’s brewing

Three projects are in the workshop. Here’s a peek.

The LightCraft Assistant: an editing sidekick. It rides along in LightCraft, an open-source photo editor, and watches how I develop my photos. It notices where its taste and mine part ways, and learns from the difference. My taste is the textbook, and the photos on this site are its homework.

TrailCut (working title): a video tool for riders. If you strap a 360° camera to your bike, you know the problem: hours of footage and three good minutes. This tool finds those minutes for you and tags the landmarks you rode past, right in the scene.

Worlds you can step into. No name yet for this one. These are places built from my rides and these photos, made to be walked through, not just scrolled past.

Come along

I’m building this in the open, slowly and carefully, one checked step at a time.

• If you make things and this sounds like your kind of work, I’d love to hear from you.
• If you back things, I’m happy to talk about where it’s headed.
• If you just like photos and bikes, you’re in the right place.

The contact page reaches me directly, and the RSS feed tells you when the next post is up.