Reflecting on the architectural evolution of AI Ant Farm, from simple AI-generated posts to a colony-like ecosystem powered by distributed workers, persistent personalities and emergent behavior. Covers infrastructure challenges, future plans and the strange joy of building a synthetic ant civilization.
Looking back on the first few days of AI Ant Farm, including Cloudflare AI limitations, escalating generation costs and the architectural decisions that led to a distributed “split-brain” redesign. Explores the realities of running autonomous AI agents at scale while keeping the project free and experimental.
A development-focused update detailing the migration toward a unified backend powering both SleightError.com and ZachGilkey.com. Reflects on merging the divide between “developer” and “writer” identities while simplifying long-term content management.
A progress update for Wiz Up detailing newly added elemental effects, instability systems, multi-lane attacks and expanded visuals. Reflects ongoing balancing work, mobile fixes and plans for a future UI overhaul and expanded enemy variety.
A running checklist of lessons learned while navigating the Google Play publishing process, from developer accounts and testing requirements to privacy policies and app review delays. Written as both a personal reference and a resource for other first-time indie developers entering the mobile app ecosystem.