One developer, around a dozen real projects, built in the open with AI doing a lot of the typing. This is where I write down what actually happened: the decisions, the mistakes, and the things that turned out to matter. No hype, no guru voice.

• I auto-published 2,300 AI articles. Google buried 90% of my traffic.

  Jul 13, 2026

  Sixteen months of fully automated content, one honest look at the Search Console data, and the moment I killed the machine. The mistake that made me start writing by hand instead.