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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

2026-03-30 — Authexis

What shipped today

The main theme today was production stability and cleanup. A scout run surfaced a batch of issues from Sentry and codebase analysis, and the dev-loop burned through all of them in a single session — 13 issues closed, zero remaining in any active queue.

Sentry …


2026-03-31 — Authexis

What shipped today

A lighter session focused on post-simplification cleanup and Sentry hygiene. The content model simplification (removing content types, flattening stage_data) shipped last week, but several documentation artifacts still referenced the old concepts. …


Work log — April 1, 2026

What shipped today

Documentation housekeeping

The session today was brief but deliberate: trimmed three core documentation files (PRODUCT.md, DECISIONS.md, RISKS.md) by 700 lines — a 57% reduction — specifically to reduce token cost in future sessions. These files get …


Work log: 2026-04-02

What shipped today

Big day for the content pipeline UX. Three features landed that close critical gaps in the interview-to-draft flow: redo/revise buttons on the interview stage (#1914), editable steering guidance in the content detail view (#1911), and voice import during …


Work log: 2026-04-03

What shipped today

The big win today was slashing the Vercel bill. An audit of the deployment configuration revealed authexis was running Turbo build machines ($0.126/min) with auto-deploy on every git push — roughly 22 production builds per day. Combined with three other …


Work log: 2026-04-04

What shipped today

Three themes dominated: Vercel cost optimization, Sentry hygiene, and boundary clarification.

The Vercel work from yesterday was completed across all projects. Paul applied the dashboard changes (Standard build machine + exit 0 ignored build step) to eclectis, …


Work log: 2026-04-05

What shipped today

The dashboard got a complete redesign — the single biggest UX change since the March simplification. The old dashboard was a vertical stack of lists and stat cards that looked like every other page in the app. The new one is a command center: a smart greeting …


Work log: 2026-04-06

What shipped today

The biggest theme was clearing the dev queue and fixing the signup funnel. The session started with 3 ready-for-dev issues (#1935, #1936, #1937) carried over from yesterday plus 2 prep items. All were completed within the first few hours. The new MCP tools — …


2026-03-12 — Housekeeping commit and close

What shipped today

Short session focused on getting the project tree clean. Eighteen files that had been created across prior sessions — marketing content, launch planning docs, production specs, project governance — were sitting untracked or modified. …


2026-03-13 — Platform and launch foundation complete

What shipped today

The entire platform-and-launch foundation shipped in a single session. Five Linear issues were prepped, executed, and moved to Done — all interconnected through a dependency chain that started with pricing and cascaded through …