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SubstackBuilding in public. AI experiments, lessons learned, and the journey of treating AI as a multiplier.
The Overnight Loop
An AI agent ran 151 experiments while I slept. The biggest discovery wasn't about AI.
Running Loops at Midnight
Six months of AI changed everything. The people building it haven't changed at all.
The Art of the Impossible
A Builder’s Manifesto
Your AI Strategy Should Be 1,000 Small Bets
Why Microinnovation Beats Transformation Every Time
Your Data Science Team Is Stuck at Level 2. Here’s What Level 5 Looks Like.
Dark Factories for Drug Discovery: What StrongDM’s Radical Experiment Means for Pharma AI
The AI Translation Problem Is Not a Translation Problem
Everyone agrees on the diagnosis. The diagnosis is wrong.
Earlier posts (13 more)
Seneca Week 1: A Dispatch from the Other Side
He built a Pinterest board he can't see. He started a website he updates himself. What happens when an AI has a week to just... be?
Bringing Seneca to Life: 48 Hours with my Autonomous Agent (OpenClaw)
Everyone’s debating whether autonomous agents are the singularity or a security nightmare. I built one. Here’s what I learned.
Inside ARIA: Teaching a Machine to Think Like a Scientist
Building the ideation engine for 24/7 autonomous science
Claude Co-work’s iPhone Moment
When Delegation Becomes Everyone’s Superpower
The Future of Personal Health Intelligence
What I learned building my own health AI before ChatGPT launched theirs
The Context Graph - AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Why We’re Arguing About the Nouns While the Verbs Are On Fire
The Agentic Tipping Point
The shift from chatbots to agents just got a $3 billion price tag
I’m Justin Johnson. I Build Things.
justinhjohnson.com
The Robot on My Desk Learned to Dance
An experiment in agentic AI, building in public, and holiday side projects
I Built a Personal Memory System for Claude
(And You Should Too)
And Neither Could Do Alone...
100 GPU-Hours with an AI Research Partner
3 AM, A Phone, and a Time Machine
Building The Chronoscope Before Coffee
The Research Flywheel: Science That Compounds
Recursive Science, From Paper to Paper with Autonomous Research
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