Shadow Pivot
My first AI-coded app

May - Jul 2025 · my first fully AI-written production app

spec-first where the habit started: PRDs, rules files, blueprints, then code.

A public, production Next.js agent app where AI wrote all of the code. Then CI/CD stood up around it, and the methodology written down: PRDs, rules files, blueprints. Three videos documented it as it happened.

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Three-act carousel: release, infrastructure, methodology
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Blueprint document driving the AI-coded Next.js agent build
Act 1 · Release 1.0 The app ships. 100% AI-written code, one person directing.
GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for the AI-coded application
Act 2 · Infrastructure CI/CD and deployment, so the loop can run without ceremony.
Product requirements document used to scale the AI coding methodology
Act 3 · Methodology The repeatable part extracted: PRDs, rules files, blueprints.
shadow-pivot-ai-agentv2 ↗ shadow-pivot-ai-agent, the infra-first v1 ↗
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/writing-index.json

2025-07-11

A 100% AI-Coded Next.js Agent, Part 3: Scaling AI Coding into a Delivery Method

How to make AI coding repeatable for a delivery team: the PRD, the technical blueprint and the MDC task file, the AGENTS.md rules that bind them, what stays the same as traditional delivery and what changes.

2025-07-07

A 100% AI-Coded Next.js Agent, Part 2: CI/CD, Cloud Identities and the Architecture

How an app written entirely by AI gets from a commit to the cloud: two GitHub Actions pipelines picked by branch name, five actors that each get into Azure their own way, a public copy on CloudFront and EC2, a layered Next.js architecture, and prompts kept as versioned JSON.

2025-07-06

A 100% AI-Coded Next.js Agent, Part 1: The Four Practices Behind Release 1.0

What it took to ship a Next.js AI agent written entirely by AI: what release 1.0 does, the four practices behind it (planning files the AI works from, early CI/CD with real cloud access, a person in the product manager seat, comparing models), where each fell short, and a lab that runs the real fix for a partial failure.

2025-06-12

Azure RBAC and CI/CD for AI Coding Agents: Five Actors, Four Auth Patterns, Almost No Passwords

How I gave Copilot, Codex, GitHub Actions and an Azure Web App access to Azure Storage and AI Foundry with az login, managed identity, OIDC and one timed secret. Includes a lab that shows which credential DefaultAzureCredential picks.

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