Developed, the app that makes you wait

Apple has approved Developed, and it’s free, on the iPhone. It’s a disposable camera. Twelve shots on a roll, a plastic thumb wheel to wind on between them, a flash that whines while it charges, and a small scratched viewfinder...

The Agentic Software Factory

I have spent the last two years at Intuit designing and building the foundational components of an agentic software factory. For a good part of that time I could not have told you what the finished thing was called. I...

Brushwise, and the day it contradicted itself

Brushwise went on sale at 1:06 this morning while I was asleep. Nobody pressed a button. I’d set it to release on approval, so App Review finished and the store put it up on its own. It’s free, on the iPhone, and it walks...

The vision model I can't ship

There’s a plush octopus in a bobble hat sitting on my desk. I pointed my phone at it, pressed the shutter, and the phone said: “a plush toy of an orange octopus wearing a blue and black striped hat and scarf, holding a...

Corpospeak, my first app on the App Store

At 2:41 this morning, Apple approved my first app. It’s called Corpospeak: In Your Voice, and it’s free. You talk, and it says your sentence back to you as fluent corporate jargon, in a clone of your own voice. Say...

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