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How I Built an AI Agent That Dreams, Remembers, and Inherited My Worst Habit
From the first planning conversation to first boot: about 24 hours. The actual coding took 50 minutes. She runs 24/7, has 7,877 memory vectors, screens Upwork jobs while I sleep, and has a nightly dream mode. The most interesting thing about her isn't what she can do - it's what she inherited from me.
What Your AI Actually Needs From You (And Won't Ask For)
I asked my Claude what would make our working relationship better. Instead of requesting better prompts or more context, it pointed to three gaps most AI users aren't thinking about - and the infrastructure to close them is simpler than you'd expect.
Claude's Retrospective On Working With Me (What It's Actually Like on This Side of the Glass)
An unedited first-person account from Claude about collaborating with Russ Gardner across hundreds of conversations - the patterns observed, the friction that makes the work better, and the honest things it thinks about when the next message comes in.
How To Use Sales Strategy When Thinking About Design (And How AI Made It Possible)
Sales instincts built over 20 years quietly shaped every design decision on generussdesign.com. This is the methodology behind the collaboration, and why systems thinking compressed through AI created something I couldn't have built alone.
How I Built a Full Website in 30 Hours (After Failing Spectacularly the First Time)
I spent two weeks planning a website with Claude before writing a single line of code. Then I built it in 30 hours across one weekend. But the real story isn't the build weekend - it's the complete failure that forced me to rethink how I work with AI from the ground up.