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Why I started writing this blog
by chaninl ·
A note up front: I’ve never written a blog before, so if something reads oddly, tell me — I’d genuinely welcome it. AI is being talked about everywhere in tech right now, especially in software. So I wanted to start writing about using AI in software work, in a way that’s actually useful to someone.
For anyone who doesn’t know me — I’m Nin, a software engineer who got here self-taught: online courses, a bootcamp, and a lot of real projects, on top of a background in economics and management. On this site I’ll try to write about using AI and building in public.
What “building in public” means
It’s the part most build-in-public writing skips. I’ll write the wins, but also the dead ends, the calls I got wrong, and what actually shipped versus what I planned. From my own experience the honest version is more useful — and, frankly, easier to write than pretending I had it all figured out from the start.
What I’m building
These are the projects and ideas I’m working on right now:
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| A B2B system | Solo build, three-month deadline, for a regulated industry |
| OCR with a human | AI handles confident cases; a person reviews the rest |
| A Thai-law agent | An agent with a harness, answering from open legal datasets |
The first is real client work. So my rule is simple: lessons, not clients.
What to expect
Mostly short posts — weekly build logs and debugging stories — with the occasional deeper teardown.
If you build with AI too, I hope some of this saves you a wrong turn.