Building in the open

Dev Journal

Notes from building MoVox — the choices, the engineering, and what’s next.

• July 25, 2026

  A text file goes in, a film comes out

  What MoVox actually is, end to end. Five AI agents, one human signing off at every checkpoint, all of it running on one machine on my desk — plus an honest account of which parts work today and which parts are still a gray rectangle.

• July 23, 2026

  AI is just the next tool

  Two halves of one stance: AI isn't coming for your job, and what it makes isn't slop. An engineer on why the next tool is just that — a tool — and how craft survives, drawn from building MoVox.

• July 23, 2026

  The book was too heavy

  How my love of the Chinese classics began — a Journey to the West too heavy for a second-grader — and why, decades later, I'm teaching a computer to read those stories to my kids in my own voice.