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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

Work log — 2026-04-02

What shipped today

Five issues closed — a mix of security hardening, UX polish, test coverage, and dead-code discovery. The ready-for-dev queue went from four items to zero.

The most impactful fix was #655: the podcast RSS feed endpoint was using a LIKE query with a loose …


Work log — 2026-04-03

What shipped today

The biggest feature was manual briefing mode (#661) — a prospect-driven request that landed fully in one pass. Users can now toggle between auto and manual briefing in settings. In manual mode, the articles page shows checkboxes on each card with a …


Work log — 2026-04-04

What shipped today

The major theme was observability. PostHog was broken — the API key in production was wrong (zeros where there should have been capital O’s), and the project showed zero events. Fixed the key across all Vercel environments, deployed to production, and …


Work log — 2026-04-05

What shipped today

A short but high-impact session focused on getting PostHog actually working in production. The proxy route /ingest/* was being caught by the auth middleware and redirected to /login — meaning every PostHog event from the client-side SDK was silently failing …


Work log — 2026-04-06

What shipped today

The session started with a prod deploy and a full scout run — five parallel agents scanned error handling, security, dead code, test coverage, feature gaps, UX gaps, dependency health, performance, and Sentry. The scout filed 5 issues, and three were shipped …


Forge World — 2026-03-29

What shipped today

Today was a full sweep of the Forge World codebase — three scout runs identified 30 issues across error handling, test coverage, UX gaps, dead code, and dependency health. The dev-loop executed continuously, closing 30 issues total (from #25 through #54). …


Work log — 2026-03-30

What shipped today

This session was a continuation of yesterday’s scout→dev-loop cycle, finishing the test coverage sweep and then pivoting to a new scout run that identified security and UX gaps.

Test coverage reached baseline. The final auth helper tests (#81) landed, …


2026-03-22 — Marketing agency: first client engagement

What shipped today

The marketing agency ran its first real engagement: Eclectis competitive analysis under the Synaxis methodology. This was the NVN atom in action — strategist role loaded, guide followed, template filled, client inputs …


Work log — 2026-03-12

What shipped today

The knowledge proxy earned its keep today. Three other sessions consulted it via tmux — first the courses session asking about the Maven/Kajabi platform decision, then the supervisor session requesting corpus research for two blog ideas. The proxy answered …


Work log — 2026-03-13

What shipped today

The knowledge proxy served two main functions today: corpus research for a new blog idea and a full Authexis interview.

Paul’s blog idea — “people won’t worry about content quality when content itself is commoditized” — got a thorough …