“What have you built with AI?” caught me off guard on a job application. Now that I’m seeing similar questions from the hiring side, I’ve been thinking about what a useful answer reveals and how building my own tools has given me a new perspective on testing and quality.
I gave Codex a browser and a Mailinator inbox, then asked it to join my website without detailed instructions. What it figured out shows how agents are becoming a new class of users for interfaces designed for people.
Same prompt, same agent, vastly different results. While building, one AI session nailed a complex feature in minutes while another spent two days running in circles. Here is what playing AI roulette taught me about non-determinism and the true cost of AI coding wins.
AI agents can lower the cost of trying something. That doesn’t automatically make it worth doing.
A straightforward way to split commits between work and personal GitHub accounts.
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