Notes from the studio

Engineering Journal

JN-001 · Published

The Falling Cost of Restarting Software

Agentic AI makes it cheaper to start software projects—and to return to them. Tests, code, and recorded conversations preserve the context needed to pick up where we left off.

AI · Software Engineering · Process

JN-003 · Republished

How I Used ChatGPT to Help Me Design a Board Game

A design diary for Reformer: using ChatGPT to explore political game mechanics and themes, then testing the limits of AI-driven playtesting.

Game Design · AI · Process

JN-002 · Republished

Technical Debt and Reviving a 4-Year-Old Application

Revisiting Spontaniius after four years exposed broken Android dependencies, difficult old architecture, and the value of documentation and automated tests.

Software Engineering · Technical Debt · Spontaniius