May 29 I wrote my first AI trainwreck story. June 18 I finished #15.

People keep asking if this was some kind of "writing experiment" — it wasn't. I'm not that poetic.

The truth is, nobody was reading what I wrote before.

Scroll back to my early posts: AI agent setup notes, QA automation on a budget, a couple of technical deep-dives. Zero to one reaction each. Comments section was a ghost town. I took a real look around Dev.to — the front page is packed with tutorials and technical walkthroughs, but story-driven content? Barely any.

The old road was a dead end. Time to find a new one.