Bell Labs Was Filed Under "National Lab." Three Tribal Governments Were Filed Under "Nonprofit." Getting a Database Right Is the Same Problem as Getting a Country Right.
A flavorings company filed under "AI Application" led to a full audit of Oluwadi's own 11,839-company database -- corporate research labs mistaken for government facilities, tribal governments read as advocacy nonprofits, entire universities crushed into one department, and an honest account of what still isn't fixed.
Three Apps in Three Months: What Building With AI Actually Looks Like
The dominant narrative about AI and developers is replacement. That's not the only real experience out there. A 40-year developer's own account of shipping three real, working apps in three months -- and why the actual mechanism wasn't speed for its own sake, it was iteration.
Open Data Isn't the Same as Usable Data
BLM, EIA, and FRED are all real federal data sources, integrated the same afternoon -- a silently-null field, a row that splits five ways without warning, and one that just worked. None of it was documented anywhere. All of it required checking, not trusting.
What This Blog Is, and How Oluwadi Actually Gets Built
Why this exists, how Oluwadi and Osparna share one graph behind two different doors, and an honest account of where AI does and doesn't get trusted in building and running both.