I built software tailored for my partner, who's used it for years. I use it as a lab to test AI features in a real-world system.
- A reseller CRM/ERP: inventory, accounting, a few built-in insights and management tips.
- In production for several years — a real IS, with real constraints, not a sandbox.
- My AI experimentation ground. Example: trying to replace the whole frontend with a prompt-client that reaches the backend via
MCP to drive operations. - The verdict, owned: slower than human navigation, more errors, not intuitive. The failure is the interesting result.
- What this lab surfaced: Tinderize (putting human ↔ AI interaction back in), an evaluation system for AI robustness, and my own UX patterns for embedding AI in a frontend.