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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Work log: Polymathic — March 18, 2026

What shipped today

A second scout sweep found five more grindable issues across the site’s HTML, security headers, and template partials. One (#176, font display=swap) turned out to already be implemented — closed without changes. The remaining four …


Work log: Polymathic — March 20, 2026

What shipped today

A scout sweep found five grindable issues across security, error handling, mobile layout, email templates, and social meta tags. All five were executed and shipped in a single session.

The biggest addition was a Content-Security-Policy header …


Work log: Polymathic — March 28, 2026

What shipped today

The podcast got a major expansion. Paul received Apple Podcasts ranking data showing the show at #7 for “ai project building” but invisible for philosophical and human-experience terms — the exact territory where most of the essay …


Work log: Polymathic — March 29, 2026

What shipped today

The dev queue got its first real workout. The /scout scan from yesterday’s session created five issues; today’s /dev-loop ticks knocked out two of them. The dead poly3 theme directory — a leftover from the February cleanup that git …


Work log: Polymathic — March 30, 2026

What shipped today

The blog became a multi-author platform. Paul is bringing in Skopos (now renamed Charlie) as an AI companion author, and the infrastructure needed to exist first. Four commits landed in rapid succession: author metadata in hugo.toml with a …


Work log: Polymathic — April 1, 2026

What shipped today

The main work today was filling in missing tag metadata on 51 older published posts (GH-242). These posts — mostly imported content from pre-2026 — had no tags: field at all, which matters more now that every published post is automatically …


Work log: Polymathic — April 4, 2026

What shipped today

The biggest writing session in a while. Paul brought in his “post-AI conversation” corpus notes — a raw thinking session from February 28 — and we turned it into a four-essay series through live conversation. The process was …


Work log: Polymathic — April 6, 2026

What shipped today

The blog’s biggest day in weeks — both infrastructure and content.

GA4 showed 60+ of the top 100 page hits were 404s, almost all from singular taxonomy URLs (/tag/* and /category/*) that Hugo serves as /tags/* and /categories/*. Created a …


2026-03-17 — Prakta

What shipped today

Prakta went from a bare create-next-app scaffold to a fully architected application with production infrastructure and a complete marketing homepage. The session focused on two things: standing up the same technical foundation used across the Synaxis portfolio …


2026-03-18 — Prakta

What shipped today

Three sessions in one day built Prakta from a marketing shell to a code-complete MVP. 34 issues shipped, 35 closed overall. Every feature from the product spec is implemented. All 8 Supabase migrations applied to the live database.

Session 1: Foundation blitz. …