Last night, I stayed up too late because I was building something I was excited about. That sentence used to mean something different. A year ago, staying up until 3:30 AM meant I was deep in a feature, fighting CSS, debugging edge cases. Last night, it meant I went from recognizing a repeated workflow problem to having a working, tested, production-ready application. In about twelve hours. (7 of those, I was sleeping) Here is how that happened. The Problem I Kept Solving by Hand I had spent the day working on my projects: An engagement with a client who I am helping with an app conversion project using agentic development techniques, Waykeep (a vacation tracker app releasing on app stores soon), upgrading the core memory system for my AI assistants, and publishing a blog post. That post needed a cover image, and my assistants helped me build it. They wrote some HTML, we iterated on the layout, and they exported it to PNG using rendering libraries. We have done this several times now.…