2025-12-20 prioritizing AI coding experiments dec 2025
Creating a backlog of AI coding style tasks and then choose which to focus on right now.
Also some reflections on how to do AI coding atm.
💬2025-12-27 have shiped Substack for Data and also did some work on reports that matter.
Summary
Choice between immediate intrinsic energy (vibe-coding on Reports That Matter) and longer-term strategic leverage (Substack for Data).
Consciously prioritising the latter: working on the Substack for Data plan because its importance and leverage.
Options
So I want to just organize a backlog of coding-related projects where I can try out my AI tools.
- Life Itself website — web design and development.
- Reports That Matter — publishing app for inquiries / public reports.
- Flower Show: publish tool — CLI + workflow for rapid Markdown publishing.
- Substack for Data — data-native publishing concept.
- Florist — publishing app experiment on DataHub infra.
Strategic (separate)
- Datopion: AI + data evolution — positioning Datopion around AI-and-data expertise.
Evaluation
Applied updates:
- Renamed “Forest” → Florist
- Life Itself website: Speed of feedback = 4, Scope size = M
- Reports That Matter: Scope size = M, Speed of feedback = 3
- Substack for Data: Speed of feedback = 5
AI Tool Experiment Backlog — updated scoring
| Project | Type of practice (primary) | Scope size | Learning leverage | Speed of feedback | Strategic relevance | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Itself website | Web design / web app | M | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| Reports That Matter | Web app + publishing pipeline | M | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Flower Show: publish tool | Developer tooling / CLI | S | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| Substack for Data | Product + data publishing | M | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| Florist | Data systems / publishing | L | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
2025-12-22 - some further reflections
- How can i have a sandboxed environment where i can 'yolo' AI code development
- Remote options e.g. codespaces
- Local options e.g. sandboxing via virtualserver
Re remote …
- How do i use obra superpowers in codespaces
- How do i automate setup of codespaces