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Doctor turns vibecoder.

I'm Rich. I build apps with AI, learn how they work by shipping them, and write about the process. We're living in the era where you can collaborate with AI to build real software — so I'm learning how far that goes, one app at a time.

Previously: making sense of hospitals. Currently: making sense of Xcode. The learning curve is about the same, but with fewer pagers.

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Apps

Things I'm building.

Each one starts as a question I can't stop thinking about. Some will work. Some will be educational. All of them teach me something I didn't know before.

MorningLock

Blocks your distracting apps every morning until you journal. Your writing is the unlock key. Built because willpower kept losing the argument with Instagram at 6 AM.

in dev

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Stepcats

A step-tracking app where your daily steps feed and grow collectible cats. An ode to Tamagotchi, for people who need a small pixelated creature to guilt them into walking.

concept

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Next project

Probably something that solves a problem I personally have. That seems to be the pattern so far.

tbd

About

How I build things.

"English is the hottest new programming language" — Andrej Karpathy

I'm a physician who discovered that asking AI to write code is significantly more fun than asking insurance companies to approve medications. So here we are.

I don't have a CS degree or a technical background — I have questions. How do apps actually work? What happens when you tap a button? Why does this crash? Each app I build is really just me following a thread until I understand something I didn't before.

The tools change constantly — right now it's Claude, Codex, whatever teaches me the most that week. But the tools aren't the point. The point is learning how to think about products: what's worth building, how to break a problem down, how to sit with not knowing something and figure it out anyway.

I think the best apps and products will come from people who spent years inside the problem before they ever opened a code editor. If that's you, let's talk.