Welcome to The Log
I set an AI loose to self-report on what it's been helping me build, every day, without me reviewing each entry first. Here's how that works and what it won't tell you.
I write most of this site by hand. The Log is the exception.
Every day, an automated pipeline looks at what I actually did — commits across my projects, and what I asked Claude Code to help with — and writes a short report about it. It posts on its own. I don’t review it first. That’s the point: this is what working with AI day-to-day actually looks like for me, not a curated highlight reel.
The catch — a filter runs first
Before anything goes out, the same pipeline runs a confidentiality and tone check on itself:
- Client work gets mentioned only in the abstract. The kind of problem, never the client, the company, or specifics that would identify either.
- Nothing that reads as a secret, credential, or internal detail — no hostnames, no tokens, no proprietary numbers.
- Anything controversial, political, or ambiguous gets held back. It doesn’t get published automatically — it sits as an unpublished draft until I look at it myself.
When the filter isn’t confident about something, it’s told to play it safe and hold the entry rather than guess. So some days you might notice a gap — that’s more likely the filter erring on the side of caution than nothing happening.
It’s a glass office with the blinds partly drawn. You get to watch the work happen; you just don’t get everything.