Engineering journal documenting the journey of building production systems with AI-powered development. From zero to a full EKS platform in two sessions.
We pulled image generation and photo transformation out of the puzzle app and into a standalone AI service — a Bun/TypeScript microservice with provider abstraction, Prometheus metrics, and Langfuse tracing. One session, fully deployed.
Replacing a login wall with progressive authentication — guest sessions, smart save prompts at natural moments, and an AI-generated Adventure Card as the registration reward.
We replaced Stable Diffusion XL with FLUX.1-schnell and rewrote our prompt pipeline so every puzzle image matches its theme — a frozen snowflake gets aurora skies, a Paw Patrol helicopter gets Adventure Bay.
We replaced a static world map with a Netflix-style carousel of kids' themes — Frozen, Paw Patrol, Pokémon and more — each with AI-generated cover art and animated backgrounds.
How we replaced a traditional mobile layout with an immersive full-screen experience, a glassmorphic floating menu, and on-demand AI puzzle generation — while deleting 1,000 lines of code.
How I built a full production-grade AWS platform with EKS, GitOps, and observability in two evening sessions using AI-powered development — work that would typically take a DevOps team months.
We built a reusable platform — now we prove it works. This blog you're reading was deployed as a new app on the same cluster in under an hour, at 11 PM on a Sunday night.