[
  {
    "slug": "how-i-built-a-production-ai-system-without-writing-the-code",
    "title": "How I Built a Production AI System Without Writing the Code",
    "tag": "Architecture",
    "tags": [
      "architecture",
      "inaugural",
      "decisions",
      "claude",
      "claude-cowork",
      "gemini",
      "agentic-ai",
      "google-cloud",
      "agents"
    ],
    "date": "2026-05-01",
    "date_display": "May 1, 2026",
    "read_time": "12",
    "read_time_display": "12 min read",
    "excerpt": "I'm not an engineer, but over the last several weeks I built a production AI system in my spare time, with Claude Cowork as my code assistant. This is the story of how it came to be, and why I didn't start by sketching an architecture diagram.",
    "pinned": true
  }
]