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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

2026-04-01

What shipped today

A single-commit session focused on dependency maintenance. Updated Next.js to 16.2.2, React to 19.2.4, @supabase/ssr to 0.10, and the ai SDK to 6.0.142 — closing #361, the last carry-over from yesterday’s queue. The @supabase/ssr bump from 0.9 → 0.10 is the most …


2026-04-04

What shipped today

Massive hardening session — 12 issues closed across security, error handling, test coverage, UX, and performance. Three scout passes found progressively deeper issues as the surface-level problems got cleared.

The most consequential fix was an open redirect …


2026-03-03 — Launch day

What shipped today

Eclectis went from a web app with no public face to a deployed, billable product at eclectis.io in a single session. The big push was M4 (Launch), which covered everything between “works locally” and “someone can sign up and pay.” …


2026-03-04 — Eclectis

What shipped today

The biggest theme was pipeline hardening and intelligence. Four engine issues were ground in parallel: HTML stripping (#54), URL normalization (#55), title cleanup (#57), and admin impersonation (#49). These cleaned up the data quality foundation — articles …


2026-03-05 — Eclectis

What shipped today

The big theme today was closing the feedback loop — making the engine’s AI scoring actually learn from user behavior and apply those learnings everywhere, not just in one handler.

Newsletter issues tracking landed first. The engine now creates a …


2026-03-06 — Eclectis

What shipped today

International search was the main deliverable. Issue #63, which had been prepped and labeled ready-for-grind yesterday, went through the autonomous grind pipeline — a single agent ran the dev/QA/review loop and shipped it cleanly. The engine now reads …


2026-03-07 — Eclectis

What shipped today

Today was primarily a quality and infrastructure session — no new features, but significant improvements to operational readiness and testing capability.

Deep scout across all three layers. Three parallel agents explored the engine, web app, and database …


2026-03-08

What shipped today

Today was a cleanup and hardening session — eight issues closed across security, performance, reliability, and test coverage. No new features; instead, the focus was on making the existing pipeline more robust and correct.

The session started by picking up carry-over …


2026-03-09 — Performance and admin hardening

What shipped today

Three performance issues and one admin compliance feature shipped today, all from the post-launch hardening backlog. The common theme was efficiency — moving work closer to where it belongs (SQL for aggregation, async for I/O) and …


2026-03-11

What shipped today

Today was a hardening session — seven issues closed, all focused on resilience, security, and correctness rather than new features. The one user-facing addition was passkey registration in settings, completing the full WebAuthn flow that started in the previous session. …