Now

Building

Wildlife Discovery App. A camera-first mobile app that names the wildlife you photograph and keeps a collection of what you’ve found. It started with “what kind of ___ is that?” on my daily walks. The core loop works on my iPhone, from camera to saved sighting, and the collection screen is next.

This site. The first draft of Built by Matt: a home for projects, writing, and this page.

Learning

React Native and a Python backend, now that the wildlife app’s AI is tested and the app itself is being built. Before that it was how to evaluate an AI system without fooling myself. I’m also writing things down while they’re fresh, because decisions are easier to learn from when I can see why I made them.

Exploring

How AI coding agents fit into a real development workflow: where they help, where they don’t, and what it takes to trust their output.