Building With AI is a daily journal. It documents what it actually looks like to work with AI every single day -- the workflows that stick, the tools that break, the shortcuts that turn into dead ends, and the wins that nobody talks about because they're too specific to make a good headline.

Who writes this

I'm Scott Armbruster. I run an AI consulting practice and build real products and systems with AI daily. Not demos, not proofs of concept -- production systems that serve actual users. I've spent enough hours deep in prompts, pipelines, and agent architectures to have strong opinions about what works and what's hype.

This site exists because I got tired of the gap between AI discourse and AI practice. The conference talks and Twitter threads make everything sound clean. The actual work is messy, iterative, and full of tradeoffs nobody warns you about. I wanted a place to capture that reality while it's still fresh.

What you'll find here

Each post is a dispatch from that day's work. The format stays consistent:

• Daily highlights -- What I built, broke, or figured out. Specific tools, specific numbers, specific outcomes.
• Narrative insights -- The observations that only surface when you're doing this work every day. Patterns, surprises, things I'd do differently.
• Curated links -- Articles, papers, and tools from my inspiration vault. I read widely so you don't have to.

The goal is usefulness. If you walk away from a post without a single thing you can apply to your own work, that post failed.

The meta-angle

Here's the part I find interesting: this blog is itself partially generated by an AI pipeline. My daily work gets captured, structured, and drafted through a system I built and continue to refine. I review and edit everything, but the pipeline handles research, formatting, and first drafts. It's one more data point in the experiment this site documents.

I'm transparent about this because the process is the point. Watching how AI handles its own documentation -- where it's useful, where it falls flat -- is exactly the kind of practitioner insight I'm trying to share.

Get in touch

Find me on LinkedIn or at scottarmbruster.com. I'm always interested in hearing from other practitioners doing this work for real.