I’m in my early 30s and I work in a large bank. I have a completely non-technical background, and I run the only non-technical team inside a technology division of 2,000 engineers around the world.
Then AI happened.
Our CIO and senior engineers were pushing to roll out Cursor licenses across the org. I was the one running the budget — 2,000 people at $2,000 per person. I pushed back hard. The numbers didn’t make sense to me.
That same week, I went home, downloaded Cursor myself, and typed one prompt: “Build me Pac-Man.” It did. A fully working game from a single sentence. I was immediately hooked.
I went into work the next morning and approved every single license.
That was the moment I realised this wasn’t just another tool. I’m a very logical person, but what AI lets you do genuinely feels like magic.
I had no coding experience — none — but I’m a problem solver by nature and a fast thinker. The thing that always held me back from traditional coding was that it required massive attention to detail and moved slowly. Fixing syntax issues is my personal nightmare. AI removed both of those barriers overnight.
So I started building. Not one app — a system. I wanted to build an autonomous AI operating system that could research, plan, and ship products and services on its own. I’ve been through multiple iterations. Tried OpenClaw and got my Claude subscription revoked for TOS violations. Twice. I then built the entire ecosystem natively in the command-line interface. The version I’m running now is by far the best I’ve had.
I’ve built many internal tools and products and killed more than that. Most of what I built early on was trash, and I’m fine with that. I wasn’t optimising for any single product — I was optimising for the system. Get the machine right and everything scales.
My stack is CLI-only. Claude Code is the backbone. I burn through rate limits constantly, so I built a model router that distributes work across Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and Codex to manage token spend. The whole operation runs from the terminal.
But this isn’t just about building software. I have a finance background, and I think that’s what most builders miss. Running a one-man business means running every part of it — research, marketing, strategy, pricing, product. The code is just one piece.
I write about what I build, what I kill, what it costs, and what I learn along the way. Hopefully I can inspire a few more people that the world of AI is far more approachable than it seems.