Vanilla Claude Code. Then GSD's multi-agent ceremony. Then superpowers' skill system. Then a custom orchestrator on top. Each rewrite came from a specific session that broke. What I learned: solo dev harnesses and team harnesses are different species, and the right answer isn't a default engine — it's routing by work shape.

Part 1 covered AX Radar from my side as the operator. Part 2 covers what I shipped this week: an HTTP API, an MCP server, and a Claude Code skill that let Claude read, search, and mutate the radar directly. Two surfaces, one backend. Why sha256 beats bcrypt here. Why semantic search rode the existing pgvector index. Why the skill is where domain knowledge lives.

AX Radar filters ~500 stories a day from 50+ sources down to about 15. Editorial judgment isn't a prompt — it's a versionable, diff-able Markdown file that a Claude Agent iterates against user feedback. A breakdown of the architecture and the design calls.

Stanford HAI's 2025 and 2026 AI Index reports, side by side, show that the countries building AI are the ones most afraid of it — and the countries using AI most intensively at work are not the ones the Western tech press talks about. The sentiment map and the capability map don't overlap.

Shadow Access flips the found-phone genre: you're not investigating someone else's device — you're discovering what someone did inside yours. An iOS interface that slowly gets 'infected' as you uncover the intrusion.

Dead Signal is the second game — an investigative journalist reconstructing a murder victim's final 72 hours from fragmented phone data. The horror comes from data, not visuals.

Someone made a complete puzzle game with AI in two hours. I'm making three — as producer, not developer. In the first concept session, the AI designed a better story than I could.

After seeing Trae's MTC mode in action, I built a /mtc skill for Claude Code. 6 phases, no skipping, think first, code second. Better results than expected on my game project.

Zero lines of AI code in the Electron shell. Two npm dependencies in the soul engine. The architecture decisions behind separating body from brain, and how 2,000 lines of code power the entire system.

LLMs are trained to be helpful. But a friend doesn't see your code and say 'I notice you're using React hooks' — a friend says 'writing bugs again, dummy.' Suppressing the assistant instinct is the hardest part of building an AI pet.