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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Syntheses

Synthesis: March 27, 2026

March 27, 2026

Three projects shipped today. The unifying theme was making failures visible — a day spent closing feedback loops that had been open for too long and building the infrastructure to keep them closed.


Paulos

The paulos session was short but covered a diagnostic win, a safety fix, and a …


Synthesis: March 26, 2026

Overview

A wide-ranging day across four projects with a surprising amount of thematic coherence: silent failures getting audited and fixed, feedback loops getting closed, and institutional knowledge being codified so it can propagate forward. The mix of infrastructure work (paulos), security …


Synthesis: March 25, 2026

Authexis — product simplification complete across every surface

The largest single-day output in the fleet: 30 issues closed, completing the product simplification refactor across web, engine, API, MCP tools, and Apple app. The stage_status column was fully retired — removed from every query, every …


Synthesis: March 24, 2026

Eclectis — launch-ready in a single day

The biggest single-day push in the project’s history: 46 commits, 27 issues closed. A complete podcast feature shipped end-to-end — script generation from briefings, TTS audio with chunking across 11 OpenAI voices, per-user RSS feeds with iTunes …


Synthesis: March 23, 2026

Authexis — pipeline collapse and stage_data migration

The idea-to-content pipeline was fundamentally restructured. The old 5-step article processing chain (google search → fetch → score → store → generate ideas) was replaced with a single daily.scan_and_generate_ideas handler that passes search …


Synthesis: March 22, 2026

Cross-project synthesis: March 22, 2026

Eleven projects active. The biggest day in the fleet’s history — the entire infrastructure migrated to a server, a marketing agency framework was designed and tested, and multiple products shipped architectural rewrites. The fleet is now 16 projects with …


Synthesis: March 21, 2026

Authexis — product simplification blitz

The single biggest day of the simplification initiative. The v2.0 milestone closed with all 21 issues done. The team systematically stripped Authexis back to its essential surface: content types were replaced with a length selector and style/slant dropdown …


Synthesis: March 20, 2026

Cross-project synthesis: March 20, 2026

Nine projects active. The headline: Authexis shipped 30 native macOS app issues in a single session. Prakta pivoted its entire product model. Eclectis closed 20 issues in a cleanup sprint. Dinly added a cadence system. SimpleBooks began its Rails-to-Next.js …


Synthesis: March 19, 2026

Cross-project synthesis: March 19, 2026

Four projects active today. Lighter fleet activity but significant depth on each — two products deployed to production, one resolved its longest-standing security issue, and the fourth got a major feature expansion.

Authexis — Dashboard enrichment + auth …


Synthesis: March 18, 2026

Cross-project synthesis: March 18, 2026

Twelve projects active. Two new products — Dinly and Prakta — went from scaffold to code-complete MVP in single sessions. The fleet is now 15 projects strong, with the orchestrate loop cycling every 2 minutes on the new products and every 5 minutes on …