How I work with AI

I use ChatGPT Desktop as the command center for thinking, investigating, creating, and operating systems. AI is the interface; the durable result stays in files, Git history, and mayphus.org.

What enters the system

Most work can begin with voice. I can talk while walking, caring for my daughter, or working on hardware. ChatGPT helps turn an unfinished thought into a question, a decision, a note, or a bounded task without waiting for a formal writing session.1

Using Codex on a phone while walking beside my young daughter.
Working through a website change on my phone while walking with my daughter.
  • For investigation, AI browses sources, compares evidence, and challenges assumptions before producing a useful conclusion.
  • For physical experiments, voice, photos, and YouTube livestreams capture what really happened. AI can help identify parts, record questions, and turn the session into an article or repair note.2
  • For software and operations, Codex uses the repository, terminal, and tests to change the actual system.

A livestream is therefore more than content. It is a record of real-world exploration that can later become searchable knowledge.

The flow

  1. Voice, video, questions
  2. ChatGPT Desktop
  3. Investigation or task
  4. Codex
  5. Git
  6. mayphus.org

ChatGPT is where I direct the work. The browser gathers evidence, Codex makes and verifies changes, Git records what actually exists, and mayphus.org publishes the useful result. These tools matter, but none of them needs to be the center on its own.3

What remains my responsibility

AI can choose local implementation details. I keep responsibility for purpose, public and private boundaries, acceptable complexity, and the definition of done. This keeps separate AI sessions moving in the same direction.

My operating rules

  1. One task should produce one clear, reviewable outcome.4
  2. Important claims need evidence; every change needs verification.
  3. Repeated instructions become repository guidance or a reusable skill.
  4. Each completed task should leave the system easier to understand.

The conversation is temporary. The artifacts are the source of truth.