I went heads down for about three months — no LinkedIn, no YouTube, barely any Twitter. In that time I shipped two iOS apps to the App Store, built an autonomous AI assistant that runs a nonprofit’s entire digital presence ²⁴⁄₇, and developed a workflow where AI agents scale my output 3-5x. This post is the full story: the career pattern that taught me to recognize seismic shifts, what I actually built, and why I’m back.

In today’s fast-paced technology landscape, I found myself immersed in my journey at TechCon 365 Dallas 2025. What used to take me days to achieve now unfolds in merely two hours. This blog explores how technology has reshaped my workflow, allowing more efficient operations while emphasizing the importance of manual oversight along the way.

If you’ve ever wondered how to compare a locally‑hosted LLM with a hosted OpenAI model side‑by‑side, while keeping the whole experiment observable from end‑to‑end, you’re in the right place. This one‑pager walks you through the starter repo that stitches together three distinct paths: