Make Your Own
Software With AI
Conjuring Code is a community for non-engineers who want to bring their ideas to life—with AI as a coding partner.
Gears And Ghosts
There are now two kinds of software: gears and ghosts. The best systems will combine them both.
Episode 05 - Closing the Gap with Jonathan Milton
Jonathan Milton on turning his healthcare-operations expertise into useful tools — a calculator that exposes the fully loaded cost of staffing, and a game to coach future health care execs on solving the human problems well.
Episode 04 - Indexing the Indies with Jim Hanas
Jim Hanas spent his career in publishing, most recently as VP of Marketing at HarperCollins, but he hadn't been "under the hood" of technology in twenty years. Then a couple of friends got him "Claude-pilled", and within weeks he'd launched smallpressinsights.com.
Apps That Work The Way You Think
Personal software lets you build for the way your brain actually works—not the way someone else thinks it should.
Beta Part Deux
Beta round 2 of the Conjuring Code book launches Friday, May 15th. If you'd like to be a beta reader, sign up here.
Episode 03 - Cutting Through the Noise with Mark Wochner
Mark Wochner on building software in hotel rooms across three continents, his Historicast app for looking up the weather in the past, and why building for an audience of one might be the most freeing thing you can do.
Episode 02 - Making an Impact with Sharon Klardie
Sharon Klardie on her "AI minions" and how she's using them to build Board Forge for nonprofit boards, publish puzzle books, and prototype a math game for her 10-year-old.
The Guessing Machine
LLMs are guessing machines—deeply capable and fundamentally untrustworthy at the same time. Knowing when to trust their guesses is the key to using them well.