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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

2026-03-16 — Housekeeping and Maven application

What shipped today

Short session focused on two pieces of cleanup and one real milestone.

First, the GitHub/Linear drift that had been flagged for two sessions got resolved permanently. All 30 open GitHub issues were bulk-closed with a note that …


2026-03-17 — Production and platform sweep

What shipped today

The entire production pipeline went from empty to fully documented in a single session. Four production artifacts shipped: the Descript editing workflow (SYN-254) with a 4-pass editing pipeline, custom vocabulary for course terms, and …


2026-03-11 — Module outlines milestone complete

What shipped today

The entire six-module curriculum got its outlines written today, completing the backbone of the course. Each outline follows the module template exactly — thesis, 4-5 lessons with turns, anchor material from the book and consulting …


Work log: Diktura — March 31, 2026

What shipped today

Today was the most productive day for the new stack by a wide margin. The feedback management system went from a basic list page to a fully functional CRUD workflow — users can now browse feedback with pagination, view individual items with full …


Work log: Diktura — April 1, 2026

What shipped today

Today was an infrastructure and reliability pass on the feedback inbox — the kind of work that doesn’t change what users see but makes the system defensible going forward. Four commits landed, closing three GitHub issues, and the work broke …


Work log: Diktura - April 2, 2026

What shipped today

The session started with housekeeping — 12 stale dependabot PRs closed, 17 orphan branches pruned, and the git/GitHub state cleaned up. From there, a scout run identified five concrete issues (broken middleware, overpermissive RLS, silent query …


Work log: Diktura - April 3, 2026

What shipped today

The session started with Phase 3 (roadmap) and ended with a fundamentally different product vision.

On the engineering side, the entire roadmap feature was built from scratch in three tickets: kanban-style list page grouped by status (#90), detail …


Work log: Diktura - April 4, 2026

What shipped today

40 commits across two sub-sessions. The product went from “Rails port with feature parity” to a full-stack customer interaction platform with support, knowledge base, unified inbox, AI chat, configurable widget, workspace management, …


Work log: April 5, 2026

What shipped today

The big architectural bet landed: Diktura’s data model shifted from a flat app_users table to a proper identity graph. This is the foundation for the “customer is the organizing unit” vision. The old model stored one record per workspace …


Work log: April 6, 2026

What shipped today

Two major initiatives and one critical bug fix, all deployed to production.

Nav restructure and account management. The sidebar went from a flat 12-item “Workspace” list to a structured hierarchy: top-level (Dashboard, Customers), Conversations …