Earl Grey

Civic technologist building AI tools that help systems explain themselves. Clew Suite builder, NACM 2026 speaker. I write about hackathons, product judgment, agent readiness, and learning in public.

Joined on Dec 28, 2025 https://clewlabs.org/

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Earl Grey

Jun 28

Can retrieval agents like ChatGPT and Perplexity read your website? Agentis Lux sees what they see.

#showdev #ai #webdev #aws

8 min read

Debugging cloud cost mysteries with AI

Earl Grey

Jun 25

My app didn't go "viral". My AWS bill did.

#aws #ai #learning #infrastructure

7 min read

Earl Grey

Jun 15

AWS Summit Los Angeles 2026: Why Am I Always Learning the Hard Way?

#ai #webdev #aws #learning

5 min read

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May 19

A Builder in Paris: Do Devs Dream of Électrique Chats?

#buildinpublic #ai #hackathon #learning

7 min read

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May 9

Code with Claude Extended SF: Heck yeah and then wait, what?

#ai #claude #beginners #learning

9 min read

Built entirely via chat on a low-end Chromebook

Earl Grey

Nov 8

A Builder in CDMX: Flu Edition

#showdev #ai #webdev #buildinpublic

9 min read

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Earl Grey

Oct 30

From One Chatbot to Five Agents: My AWS Agent Engineer Nanodegree

#ai #aws #agents #learning

11 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Earl Grey

Oct 29

El Altar que Habla: A Día de los Muertos Ofrenda Built with Gemma 4

#showdev #devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma

9 min read

Earl Grey

Oct 25

Google DevFest Central Valley: Community First, Buildathon Second.

#ai #google #community #hackathon

6 min read

Real-world testing exposed a shared AI blind spot

Earl Grey

Oct 20

An App Built for One: Why a Devpost Skill Pack Made Me Spec It Anyway

#ai #webdev #hackathon #claude

11 min read

A court professional's unexpected AI speaking tour

Earl Grey

Oct 17

AI Took Me to Three Stages. I Still Don't Like Public Speaking.

#discuss #ai #career #learning

6 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Earl Grey

Oct 15

I Wanted a Side Hustle. I Built a Herald With a Tip Jar.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #githubcopilot

11 min read

Writing the prompt took longer than the build

Earl Grey

Oct 15

Eight Minutes to Live. Was It Cursor, or Was It the Spec?

#ai #vibecoding #mlh #hacktoberfest

8 min read

Weighing free tech perks against real time costs

Earl Grey

Oct 14

On Saying No: Will the Well Dry Up?

#discuss #ai #learning #career

4 min read

Failing its first test on the author's own repo

Earl Grey

Oct 11

README Clew 2: Built with AdaL. Labeled by Jev. Judged by Code. Explained by Haiku.

#showdev #ai #hackathon #webdev

11 min read

Building small apps for tight-knit groups

Earl Grey

Oct 4

A Builder in New Orleans: When Your Vibecoded App Comes on Vacation

#ai #webdev #buildinpublic #vibecoding

9 min read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Earl Grey

Oct 3

Two Sisters Tinctures: Building an Apothecary Skincare Tracker with Gemma 4 for My Sister

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma

11 min read

Strict code checks plus algorithmic fallbacks

Earl Grey

Oct 1

Can AI Write a Sports Recap Without Making Up Stats? Mostly.

#showdev #aws #ai #webdev

11 min read

Earl Grey

Sep 26

Build with Gemini Sunnyvale: Antigravity Can Cook! With Caveats.

#ai #gemini #agents #learning

10 min read

Earl Grey

Sep 22

I Wrote the Code This Time. Does It Count If the Answer Was Wrong?

#discuss #beginners #learning #python

6 min read

Debugging recurring agent failure modes

Earl Grey

Sep 21

Nova Adiutrix: My Second Agent Built My First Project's To-Do List

#ai #aws #agents #learning

7 min read

Earl Grey

Sep 17

My First AI Judge Interview: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

#discuss #ai #hackathon #learning

8 min read

The hidden trap of micro-approvals

Earl Grey

Sep 11

My Agents Never Get Tired. I Do: On Satisficing

#discuss #ai #buildinpublic #agents

8 min read

Tested via real-world court clerk permissions

Earl Grey

Sep 9

Scoping Permissions with RBAC and Data Access Control at the AI Gateway

#buildinpublic #civictech #claude #aws

16 min read

AI coding agents audit their own mess

Earl Grey

Sep 8

After the Sprint: A 72-Hour Build Retrospective - Spoiler: It Wasn't Secure

#discuss #buildinpublic #learning #devjournal

7 min read

The imposter syndrome of AI-assisted coding

Earl Grey

Sep 7

Future AWS Agent Engineer? I Didn't Write the Code. Does It Count?

#ai #aws #learning #buildinpublic

8 min read

DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition Submission 💜

Earl Grey

Sep 7

Charitas Clew: Bureaucracy is heavy. Let's build the counterweight.

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #civictech #antigravity

6 min read

Earl Grey

Sep 4

I built it twice. Didn't place twice. Then Google and Vercel shipped it.

#discuss #agents #webdev #buildinpublic

9 min read

The empty set trap of over-engineered AI tests

Earl Grey

Sep 1

Block Zero: Oh, no! Claude, Kiro and I over-engineered the throwaway.

#aws #learning #buildinpublic #claude

9 min read

Earl Grey

Aug 27

Future AWS Agent Engineer? I Didn't Write the Code. Does It Count?

#ai #aws #learning #buildinpublic

8 min read

Unsaved files reveal missing verification layers

Earl Grey

Aug 21

My first website said "Don't commit without context." I never committed it at all.

#buildinpublic #ai #webdev #beginners

7 min read

Earl Grey

Aug 16

Claude Impact Lab LA: Community Changed the Code

#ai #civictech #community #claude

9 min read

Navigating tech terminology collisions

Earl Grey

Aug 8

Who Named This ReAct? I'd Like to Speak to the Manager.

#discuss #ai #learning #buildinpublic

8 min read

Frontend Challenge Perfect Landing Submission 🍲🥧

Earl Grey

Aug 7

Sobremesa: Six meals in Mexico, heritage without an address.

#frontendchallenge #devchallenge #claude #a11y

8 min read

Earl Grey

Aug 2

Netlify's Hot AR Summer Challenge: I Wasn't Going to Enter. 33 Apps Later, I'm So Glad I Did

#showdev #ai #webdev #buildinpublic

13 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Earl Grey

Aug 2

AWS Amplify SSR gotcha: chasing a bug that was never in my code

#devchallenge #bugsmash #aws #nextjs

11 min read

Earl Grey

Jul 27

Lemonade Second Squeeze: Model Archeology on 2019's GPT-2XL

#showdev #ai #buildinpublic #lemonade

4 min read

Earl Grey

Jul 23

AMD Advancing AI 2026: Software, Hardware & Framework, Unified

#discuss #ai #learning #buildinpublic

8 min read

Earl Grey

Jul 21

Open AI Build Week: Foundation First, Software Second

#showdev #ai #openapi #govtech

10 min read

Earl Grey

Jul 18

AWS Weekend Agent Challenge: Daybreak

#showdev #aws #buildinpublic #agents

4 min read

Earl Grey

Jul 11

MLH x DigitalOcean Hackathon: Jury Duty, Explained

#showdev #digitalocean #mlh #socialgood

9 min read

Earl Grey

Jul 6

Fable 5 Hype: Fangirling with Datasets to Build a Lakers Dashboard

#showdev #buildinpublic #ai #webdev

7 min read

Earl Grey

Jul 4

AI For Fun! Électrique Chats for Hack the Kitty, Built with Kiro.

#showdev #webdev #kiro #aws

4 min read

Earl Grey

Jun 19

Breaking Build: Kiro and Claude delivered exactly what I asked, and it wasn't what I wanted

#buildinpublic #ai #aws #webdev

5 min read

Earl Grey

Jun 17

Predictions first, data later: seven hot takes on AI agent readiness before I scan 50 sites.

#buildinpublic #ai #aws #webdev

7 min read

Earl Grey

Jun 7

An Instagram ad promised me a free AI course. Was it a scam?

#ai #beginners #devrel #community

4 min read

Earl Grey

May 31

My website has two audiences now. I only built for one of them.

#showdev #ai #webdev #agents

5 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Build With Hermes Agent

Earl Grey

May 24

I Built a Hermes Agent to Tell Me Which Hackathons to Enter. It Told Me to Enter This One.

#showdev #hermesagentchallenge #devchallenge #agents

6 min read

Earl Grey

May 23

Build Club Week Four: the part of Themis Lex I never explained

#womenintech #civictech #buildinpublic #ai

4 min read

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May 3

Build Club Week Two: The PRD doesn't catch everything

#womenintech #buildinpublic #civictech #aws

2 min read

Earl Grey

May 3

I always worried my READMEs disagreed with my own repos. So I built README Clew.

#claude #replit #beginners #hackathon

5 min read

Earl Grey

Apr 25

Week one: no code, just the work that makes the code possible

#ai #beginners #buildinpublic #learning

2 min read

Earl Grey

Apr 12

Pourquoi Pas? I Built a Petit French Learning App in a Weekend

#showdev #beginners #learning

8 min read

April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡

Earl Grey

Apr 4

STEEP: Your repo's fortune, steeped in truth.

#showdev #devchallenge #418challenge #learning

7 min read

WeCoded 2026: Echoes of Experience 💜

Earl Grey

Mar 31

Do you work here? I flew to Albuquerque to speak at a national conference. Someone asked if I worked the door.

#devchallenge #wecoded #dei #career

4 min read

WeCoded 2026: Echoes of Experience 💜

Earl Grey

Mar 9

I Planned an Exit Strategy. I Stayed the Whole Time.

#devchallenge #wecoded #dei #career

5 min read

Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge

Earl Grey

Mar 1

I Didn't Always Understand What I Was Building. That Was the Point.

#devchallenge #geminireflections #gemini

7 min read

Earl Grey

Feb 22

Me? A Semi-Finalist in the AWS 10,000 AIdeas Competition? Here's What I Built

#ai #beginners #aws #learning

4 min read

GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge Submission

Earl Grey

Feb 8

Anton Clew — Stop AI From Committing Regret

#devchallenge #githubchallenge #cli #githubcopilot

3 min read

Earl Grey

Jan 19

Clew Quest: Intelligent Project Discovery with Algolia Agent Studio

#devchallenge #algoliachallenge #ai #agents

3 min read

New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Submission

L. Cordero

Jan 5

From Jury Services to AI Builder in 6 Months

#devchallenge #googleaichallenge #portfolio #gemini

4 min read

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