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The RPIQ loop: where the architect tier actually sits

The RPIQ loop: where the architect tier actually sits

That methodology is the loop I've been running long before any of these models existed: Research → Plan → Implement → Quality. RPIQ. This post maps the stack onto it — and shows why the mapping, not the model, is the thing worth keeping.

Orchestration Part3: Why I took the architect tier out of my delivery work on purpose

Orchestration Part3: Why I took the architect tier out of my delivery work on purpose

I pay for less AI than I could afford. On purpose. Two months ago I dropped the top tier from my subscription — the architect tier, the one with Opus Max in it. Not because it wasn't good. Because it was too good at being reached for.

CAST part3: Building the team: from 17 role-based agents to task-based Agent Teams

CAST part3: Building the team: from 17 role-based agents to task-based Agent Teams

Somewhere in Phase 4 of this build, my job changed. I stopped prompting an assistant and started managing a team — one you can't see, that never sleeps, and that will confidently agree with itself right off a cliff if you let it.

CAST Part2: Four phases, four walls: how I built a production app with zero iOS experience

CAST Part2: Four phases, four walls: how I built a production app with zero iOS experience

I'll start with the part I didn't think I'd get to write so soon: as of today, BowSmith is live on the App Store. Zero iOS experience when I started. A real, shippable archery app today.

Orchestration part 2: Show, don't tell: watching one request fall through the orchestration stack

Orchestration part 2: Show, don't tell: watching one request fall through the orchestration stack

Everyone wants to argue about which model is best. It's the wrong argument. The interesting question isn't "which model" — it's "what happens at the seams between them." So instead of telling you how the three-tier stack works, I'm going to show you. One real request, followed the whole way down.

CAST part 1: How a QA professional with zero iOS experience built a production app using AI – and what I learned about the future of software delivery

CAST part 1: How a QA professional with zero iOS experience built a production app using AI – and what I learned about the future of software delivery

I have spent 20 years in software testing and quality assurance. I knew almost nothing about iOS development. Zero Swift experience. Yet here I am, 18 months later, with a production-ready iOS app approaching alpha launch.

Orchestration part 1: Show Me the Receipts: What Machine-to-Machine Fluency Actually Looks Like

Orchestration part 1: Show Me the Receipts: What Machine-to-Machine Fluency Actually Looks Like

A real trace through the stack — Opus Max/Fable(MIA) → Opus (high/medium) → Sonnet. One fuzzy idea, turned into a spec, decomposed into tasks, and shipped — and why the hand-offs are the part that matters.