BUG CITY

Working Skillfully With AI

December 4, 2025

There's a lot of discussion on what AI can't do well.

Far more than with other tech. My Vitamix can't smoke a turkey; my bluetooth speaker doesn't attend Zoom meetings in my stead; my vacuum won't even attempt to teach my child phonics. Nobody regards these as limitations worth mentioning. In fact you'd be considered a moron for even bringing them up in conversation.

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Thesis 0.1

December 3, 2025

Bug City is a venture studio dedicated to earning $20,000 monthly for its founder (i.e. me, Jay Capers) at which point I can comfortably cover my personal expenses and tell my employer to shove off. (Not that I ever would tell them that; the point is I could.)

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Making My AI Suffer

November 18, 2025

In the rough and tumble world of coding custom software, there’s a lot of drudgery. 

My accounting software, for example, has 100 settings pages; our product manager thinks up three new settings pages an hour. Every customer request yields a new settings page, for some feature or other. If we launch a feature that's not configurable user-by-user along eight different dimensions, it's regarded as a substantial failure of the engineering org; there is wailing, rending of garments, at times physical violence.

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The .AI TLD Namespace is a Wasteland of Disgusting Opportunists

November 17, 2025

The average .ai domain name is owned by a criminal. In my opinion.

These criminals—though some will argue they have committed no crime, strictly speaking—these criminals are guilty of purchasing every vaguely pronounceable .ai domain name, with no intent of ever building anything on those domains.

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