I’ll be honest: the first time I opened a code editor, I wanted to close my laptop and go lie down.
Now I open VS Code like, “Alright, let’s argue until something works.”
Lowkey, learning to talk to AI was the first time I felt like tech was listening back.
I type chaos, it returns structure.
We build from there.
You can keep the “AI expert” label.
I’m the “AI made it finally possible for me to build the ideas sitting in my head” person.
That lane is enough for me.
Everybody’s talking about replacing jobs with AI.
Meanwhile I’m over here using AI just to stop feeling illiterate in tech.
Context matters.
I like building things I want to use because then at minimum, one person on earth is guaranteed to care.
That’s my whole product strategy right now.
Tandem is literally me saying:
“I’m tired of talking to cold systems. Give me a bridge back to human beings.”
AI as a doorway, not a wall.
I didn’t discover AI and say “cool gadget.”
I said “this might be my way out of not knowing anything about tech.”
That changes how seriously you take the tools.
Some people had mentors.
I had:
- random Twitter threads
- AI models
- Laravel docs
And a vision that refused to leave me alone.
Every time I think “wow, I’m in too deep with this startup,” I remember:
I already figured out how to speak AI.
I already figured out Laravel.
I can figure out the rest.
Whatever this phase of my life is, it’s definitely:
Founding a startup.
Learning AI.
Processing trauma.
Squinting at code.
All at the same time.
My superpower is not being the smartest in the room.
It’s being the one who will sit there the longest with the problem until it finally taps out.
I don’t want to be a “tech bro.”
I want to be the person who says:
"Yeah, I learned AI, Laravel, and product out of pure survival instinct… and then built something real."
Building in public for me is not aesthetics.
It’s:
- here’s what I broke
- here’s what I fixed
- and here’s why I still believe I can take over the world with this product.
People underestimate what “I’ll just figure it out” energy can do when you aim it at tech.
I didn’t know web design.
I didn’t know databases.
I just refused to stay confused.
My stack right now:
- Laravel
- @WorkOS starter kit
- @OpenAI
- and a slightly unhinged belief in my future self.
I really went from “how do I build a website?” to “here’s my agent–human handoff platform built on Laravel.”
Sometimes the glow up is just consistent confusion plus persistence.
I’m not “technical” in the traditional sense.
But I am dangerous with:
- AI
- Laravel
- and a specific vision of the product I want to exist.
That’s enough.
Confession:
I did not "find my place in tech."
Tech was confusing, gatekept, and overwhelming.
I found my place in AI.
AI became the bridge into tech for me.
My real AI skill is not prompting.
It’s knowing how to talk to AI like a teammate:
- explain what I want
- get back clarity
- and turn that into something I can ship or sell.
I used to stare at CSS, networking, and databases like they were ancient runes.
Now I stare at them like new runes.
Progress.
Ever since @BillGates dropped billions into @OpenAI, I knew AI wasn’t a toy.
I said, “Okay, if the billionaires are treating this seriously, I’m not about to be left in 1998.”
I care about the persistence of BPD and NPD because I’ve seen what happens when those traits sit in positions of power.
Startups. Relationships. Communities.
It’s not theory. It’s lived damage.
We talk about “toxic culture” like it’s a process problem.
Sometimes it’s a personality disorder problem.
Sometimes it’s three of them in the same Slack.
I want to keep talking about personality disorders.
BPD. NPD. The persistence of both.
Because the more I move through tech, business, and leadership circles… the more I’m like: this is not rare at all.
My vision:
Glasses for far.
Glasses for near.
My founder reality:
One pair for code.
One pair for vibes.
One pair for reading legal agreements I did not understand when I signed them.
I am not near-sighted.
I am not far-sighted.
I am “if I take off these glasses, the entire world is a watercolor painting” sighted.
Every founder out here building "AI for support" like customers are NPCs.
I’m building Tandem for people who are actually tired, actually stressed, and just want a human.
AI is the bridge, not the destination.
I’m not trying to replace humans with AI.
I’m trying to build a reality where:
AI does the busy work.
Humans do the judgment calls.
That’s the whole point of Tandem.
Tandem exists because I got tired of yelling "REPRESENTATIVE" into the void.
If AI is going to answer first, it should at least know when to get out of the way.
Meet Tandem.
The agent-to-human handoff platform.
AI speed. Human judgment.
Because sometimes you want a bot, and sometimes you need a human who understands why you’re done with life.
