Building with AI tasks

I think this task will help junior AI "devs" become more senior. They'll see how I challenge the AI and keep control of the direction of the project. If you really want to, you will use AI to clone this biz. My moat is the constant ideas and ways to improve, so if you're gonna copy me, at least do it right LOL I also believe that there will always be people who don't want to build things that are not core to their business. They'll use this instead of building their own.

tom.ortega · updated Aug 30, 2026

I spent 2 years building Remixing Reality, by hand with a ton of sweat. I got far, people were impressed but it was far from what I *REALLY* wanted to hand over to users. With the introduction of Fable 5 in Anthropic's Claude, everything changed. It led me through an amazing refactor. Sadly, MyStatus didn't exist, so I don't have any evidence of that glorious few weeks. Claude Cowork with Fable 5 and I still have a lot of work to do though. This task's updates will talk about that from a nerdy, technical + AI + humor angle. The MyStatus AI Nerdery (where the updates are about Claude and I building MyStatus) are tons of fun because we talking about a product on the product while we're building it. People joke about fixing a plane while flying, but we're doing it there. Whereas here, we're replacing the engines on the plane while it's flying. A different kinda crazy, but still fun. Whereas in the MyStatus side, AI is doing the bulk of the work and I supervise/dictate. Here, I'm insuring Claude sticks to not only my product vision but my code architecture vision, all while helping me brave a new world of standards (USD, glTF) and OpenSource contributions.

tom.ortega · updated Aug 12, 2026