A year ago I had an entrepreneurial seizure
On the 13th February 2025 I embarked on a new adventure. That’s over a year ago now so it’s worth me taking some time to re-appraise. I’d given myself until October 2025 to make something worthwhile. In the last year, AI has improved so rapidly – at this time Opus 4.6 is out and it really is excellent. Programming as a career is changing but I am less sad about the consequences now. For me at least, it unlocks a whole new world of productivity and the key is being willing to take the leap, work smart and learn the art of using agents and sub-agents.
Keeping consistent online updates is a challenge
The main task last year was to learn AI and build something out of it before October 2025. At that point if I wasn’t satisfied with the direction that I was going in, then I would happily concede and then move back to employment. I also said I would be doing regular LinkedIn, YouTube, Insta updates, etc, etc. I did pretty well at keeping this blog up to date in the beginning, but as I got more embedded into other things the consistency in keeping the public profile up to date was not something I could keep up with.
The key thing is – I have ended up somewhere in the middle – I didn’t completely fail and I didn’t completely succeed. I have recently taken an employment role at a local company that I’m very happy with. It’s great to be back working in a team, and in a company that is well organised and with all the social good that you miss out on working as a self-employed. This is somewhat part-time role at three days a week, but I’m working quite intensely throughout the days – last week for the first time I saw the light and had half a dozen Opus agents working alongside each other on the same codebase. The only challenge is keeping on top of them all and making sure they are behaving themselves.
So, having gone back to employment I have fixed the looming financial problems that were mounting. Rather than stop in October 2025 I went on for a few more months to see how far I could push things. Whilst nothing is certain in life, having some life structured and a regular paycheque this year is truly welcomed – as well as having some good projects to get my teeth into.
Alongside this, I have developed an AI platform called AffiliateFactory in a partnership with Digital Fuel Performance. Its foundations are based on things that I have been working on for a while, and whilst it is essentially a website management system … it is evolving into a custom agent marketing platform. After a few more iterations over next few months I will be releasing more information on it.
My intention is to continue working on this platform alongside my regular employment.
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