Living Method
How I Build Software
My AI-assisted engineering operating system: a way to investigate by voice, turn thinking into written plans, let autonomous loops run, and validate the result against the original goal.
What It Is
This is not a single tool. It is the system around the tools: how I move from an idea to shipped work when AI agents are part of the engineering process. The blog post captures what it looked like in June 2026; this page is the current version.
The point is to make software work less dependent on sitting at a desk and manually approving every step. I front-load the thinking, write down the acceptance criteria, give the agent the tools it needs, and let the work run while I do something else.
The Current Loop
- Scope Align on the intent, constraints, complexity, and shape of the work.
- Document Open the durable project record and define the acceptance criteria.
- Expand Fan out across gaps, adjacent ideas, risks, and useful recommendations.
- Converge Pressure-test the plan until its weakest area reaches the readiness bar.
- Build Execute the resolved plan autonomously, one reviewable milestone at a time.
- Verify Test the result, inspect live seams, and reconcile the record with reality.
What Makes It Work
- Voice-first investigation, including long monologues from my phone.
- An always-on machine so sessions keep running when I walk away.
- Remote Claude Code sessions launched into tmux.
- Claude Launcher for starting sessions from a phone.
- Notifications so I know when a loop finishes or needs input.
- A readiness check at each verb boundary before moving forward.
Evolution Timeline
The workflow is expected to change as the tools change. The project page stays current; the blog posts become dated chapters of how the system worked at a particular moment.
Why It Is A Project
A workflow can be a project when it has architecture, tools, tradeoffs, constraints, and a maintenance loop. This one does. It is also one of the more honest things I can show publicly, because it explains how I build the other work on this site.