Brian Roy

Nobody Asked Dave

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:15:00 -0700

Somewhere in a system I built there is a description of a man named Dave. It says he escalates under stress and needs the context up front or he digs in.

It’s accurate. I wrote it, more or less, by asking for help dealing with him.

Dave has no idea.

I’ll come back to Dave. First, what I was trying to build when I wrote that down about him.

An outcome worth having

Picture a thirty message email thread. Six people, four days, two of them arguing past each other, one attachment that matters, and a decision buried somewhere around message nineteen.

Two Gods That Failed

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:40:52 -0700

When your economic doctrine fails, you don’t revise it. You theologize it. And then you find some heretics.

Peter Thiel sold out four private lectures about the Antichrist. In San Francisco. In 2025. By invitation only. No recordings allowed. Eight hours of lectures delivered to paying guests in a room full of people who make their living building surveillance software and betting on algorithmic futures.

That’s not a punchline. It’s a diagnosis.

KAIPARR - The Learning System

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0600

AI that doesn’t learn is just an expensive auto-complete.

Let Them Eat AI Cake

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:30:00 -0700

This post is sure to make me wildly unpopular in some circles… that’s ok, I’m saying what I think and I’m not too concerned about being popular.

The collective angst of the software development profession over AI software development is cringe worthy. The cringe exists in two dimensions, elitism and OUTRAGE that the disruption has come for ME!!!

All quotes have had the author redacted because I’m not here to publicly shame individuals.

AI, Software and the Era of Personal Applications

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:30:25 -0700

In the last 2 weeks I’ve “written” 4 applications with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini or some combination of the 3… including an application to replace Apple Calendar that integrates directly with the Google Calendar API, Claude, and a custom MCP / RAG service enabling an AI in calendar assistant.

Most of these were personal productivity applications that - while I’ve been thinking about them for years in some cases - weren’t worth building at the cost of weeks of by hand code creation. But with Specification Driven AI Development they now make sense to build and maintain because they cost me a few hours and add capability for ME, are uniquely tailored to ME and will make ME more productive.