September 2, 2026

Why? My First Blog Post

I’m an insurance consultant. I spend my days inspecting properties and writing the reports underwriters use to price risk. It’s solid work, and I’m good at it, but it’s not the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.

For years, I’ve had a running list of things I actually cared about — music, cybersecurity, building software, making things people could use — and a running excuse for why none of them got finished: I had to go make money instead. The trade-off felt permanent. Every time I picked one of those interests back up, something more urgent pushed it back down.

What’s changed recently isn’t the list. It’s that I can now sit down with an LLM, describe what I want to build, and actually get somewhere — not a toy demo, but real, working software — in an evening instead of a semester. I no longer have to spend weeks learning a new programming language or JavaScript framework before I can start. That doesn’t make the work easy, and it doesn’t make me an expert on anything overnight. But it does mean the gap between “I have an idea” and “I have something real” got a lot smaller. Now iteration and persistence are the limiting factors, and I want to see how far I can go.