For a product manager who has always loved playing with technology but never fully crossed the Rubicon to becoming a developer, I’m super excited that we are about to enter what I believe will be the Golden Age of product development for non-programmers, driven by AI.

My goal with this site is to document my personal transformation into a full-stack AI product developer by leveraging the best available AI tools, services, and agentic systems for people like me–more product oriented but not completely technically uninclined.

This space will also serve as my personal blog, which I hope to eventually do some more long-form writing on. But for now, it will be mostly focused on serving as the first testbed for my AI-assisted technical endeavors.

Towards that end, here is my current tech stack that I have sort of been cobbling together to help me learn as I go along while I try to figure out what in exactly the heck I’m doing

My Tech Stack (v1.0)

  • Jekyll static blog engine with styling assets being served via Vite (as I intend to design my own themes)
  • Doing all my development inside of a devpod, where I am also experminting with using Nix Flakes for easily reproducible dev environments
  • Been experimenting with using Codex, Cursor, and Warp for AI-assisted coding, the latter two of which I’ve played around with in prior contexts, so have mostly used Codex for this project so far
  • My linux host system is running Fedora Aurora, which is a whole other topic of conversation, but worth mentioning because playing around with that has been a fantastic learning experience
  • Hosting my site on Github Pages using Github Actions for my CI/CD pipeline

Next Steps

I plan to keep my posts fairly snappy, since attention spans… I will be following up shortly, though, with some more specifics on what I plan to do with this site, and some of the upcoming enhancements and “experiments” I am planning for this project.

If you have made it this far, I sincerely thank you, whoever you may be. And may this mark just the beginning of what will prove to be a long and very fruitful adventure together!

Much thanks,

Dennis