Phillip Lovelace

Find Me in the Atmosphere

This weekend, I wired my website into the AT Protocol. It took an afternoon and one stubbornly old config file, and now my writing lives on the network itself. The short version: Bluesky rolled out su…

AI Quote

"It's interesting how AI is good at the things I don’t understand, but is somehow dogshit at the things I’m good at..." - Anonymous

Webrings

AI fills the gaps. Just not at depth

Last month, a Cloudflare engineer used AI to rebuild a major open-source project in under a week. Cost about $1,100. It shipped to production. Around the same time, a different Cloudflare team used AI…

When the Autocomplete Changes Its Mind

Tailwind usage is at an all-time high. Revenue is down 80%. Documentation traffic dropped 40% over two years. AI didn't kill Tailwind. AI now picks Tailwind. Every prompt. Every team. Without anyone c…

Unregulated, Unaccountable, Unchecked

Everyone's arguing about which AI tool writes the best code or generates the best images. Meanwhile, the companies building these systems are racing to ship faster, raise more, and consolidate more po…

It’s Friday. We’re Tired.

It's 4 pm on a Friday. I've approved my last PR of the week. I've reviewed more code today than I wrote. I got a lot done, or at least, the dashboard says I did. But I'm sitting here, and I can't thin…

stockpile: know what’s in your arsenal

At some point, I stopped knowing what was on my Mac. A tool here, a dependency my agent dropped in there. Collectively, a mystery. I was losing track. To help, I created stockpile. Not all at once. It…

So I Put My AI Skills in a Marketplace

Everyone's building custom skills for their AI coding assistants right now. Commit helpers, linting rules, project scaffolding. Little markdown files that make Claude Code do things your way instead o…

Three AIs Missed It. One Human Didn’t

I had done everything right. Or at least, everything the current playbook says to do. Used AI to fill the gaps, reviewed it myself, then handed it off to more AI. This past week, I got handed a projec…

AI Chose Your UI (Did It Choose Wrong?)

After years of building, maintaining, and supporting in-house design systems with real tokens, governance, versioning, support, and contribution models, I recently found myself building with Tailwind …