The lab of Emily Sas.https://emilybuilds.ai/en-gbhttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/diverse-by-prompt/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/diverse-by-prompt/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/mullo/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/mullo/The best page, the worse journey: when an AI tool's quality isn't worth the effortFri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/guides/evaluating-ai-output/#v2https://emilybuilds.ai/guides/evaluating-ai-output/#v2A living guide. I wrote v1 in 2025 after building Launchling's evaluation framework; v2 is how I'd do it in October 2026. I've kept both, because the gap between them says as much as either version does.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/drawing-every-recipe/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/drawing-every-recipe/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/this-lab-rebuilt/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/this-lab-rebuilt/Nothing goes live unread: building a public site with AI agents, without losing controlThu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/fold-review-panel/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/fold-review-panel/Never mark your own homework: independent AI reviewers for a solo builderSat, 24 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/fold/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/fold/Cheap to build, hard to stop: when AI builds faster than you can learnThu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/emilysas-com/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/emilysas-com/The bottleneck moved: where the time goes when an AI agent writes the codeTue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/guides/evaluating-ai-output/#v1https://emilybuilds.ai/guides/evaluating-ai-output/#v1A living guide. I wrote v1 in 2025 after building Launchling's evaluation framework; v2 is how I'd do it in October 2026. I've kept both, because the gap between them says as much as either version does.Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/handling-absurdity-by-design/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/handling-absurdity-by-design/I wrote this in July 2025, after a few days of trying to break Launchling with absurd and adversarial ideas, many of them from a friend. I've since retired Launchling; the retrospective explains what happened after this, and why.Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/ai-pair-programming/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/ai-pair-programming/I wrote this in July 2025, while I was building Launchling, which I've since retired. A fortnight later this evaluation system couldn't finish a single run; here's what happened .Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/from-mvp-to-momentum/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/from-mvp-to-momentum/I wrote this in July 2025, just before the evaluation work took over the rest of the project. The retrospective covers what happened next, and why I've since retired Launchling. The hello@launchling.io address mentioned here is no longer in use.Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/post-launch-polish/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/post-launch-polish/I wrote this in July 2025, in the first days after TinyLaunch reached real users. Launchling, as it became, has since been retired; the retrospective covers what happened next.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/from-tinylaunch-to-launchling/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/from-tinylaunch-to-launchling/I wrote this in July 2025, when I renamed TinyLaunch as Launchling. I've since retired it, and the retrospective explains why the gap it filled has closed.Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/using-ai-to-evaluate-tinylaunch/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/using-ai-to-evaluate-tinylaunch/I wrote this in July 2025, after the first evaluation run on 11 real plans. The evaluation system grew from here until, by early August, it couldn't finish a single run, and I've since retired Launchling; here's what happened .Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/tinylaunch-from-framer-to-react/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/tinylaunch-from-framer-to-react/I wrote this in July 2025, a couple of days into rebuilding TinyLaunch in React. It was renamed Launchling shortly afterwards and I've since retired it; the retrospective covers what happened in between.Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/tinylaunch-is-launched/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/tinylaunch-is-launched/I wrote this in July 2025, as the React version of TinyLaunch went out to its first users. It was renamed Launchling shortly afterwards and I've since retired it; the retrospective covers what happened next.Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/tinylaunch/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/tinylaunch/I wrote this in July 2025, when TinyLaunch was a no-code alpha built with Tally, Framer and the OpenAI API. Within days I'd rebuilt it in React and renamed it Launchling, and I've since retired it; the retrospective explains why.Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/failing-to-send-emails/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/failing-to-send-emails/I wrote this in July 2025, the week I set up the first emilybuilds.ai on Notion and Super.so. That site has since been replaced by this one; here's why I moved off Notion .Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/notes/portfolio-with-notion-and-super/https://emilybuilds.ai/notes/portfolio-with-notion-and-super/I wrote this in July 2025, the week the first emilybuilds.ai went live on Notion and Super.so. It's kept as I wrote it, except that I've folded a later update into the main text. The site has since been rebuilt in code: why I moved off Notion and how the new one was built .Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/emilybuilds-on-notion/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/emilybuilds-on-notion/Deciding not to build: when no-code is the right call, and when it stops being oneSun, 06 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/launchling/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/launchling/All tests passing: when checking an AI product outgrows the productSun, 01 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://emilybuilds.ai/builds/ambient-care-plan-scribe/https://emilybuilds.ai/builds/ambient-care-plan-scribe/Before care had scribes: drafting care plans with AI in 2022Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT