Patrick White
Software engineer. Indie builder.
I build small, profitable things on the internet. CaliforniaBirthIndex.org has been running since 2012 with near-zero maintenance. FeelBetterBot.com is an AI companion for emotional support—free, anonymous, and genuinely helpful to the people who use it.
I'm interested in AI-native development: what it means to build with AI rather than just using AI as a tool. All of my work happens with Claude Code.
My stack is Cloudflare-native: Workers, D1, R2, Hono. Server-rendered HTML. 50 lines that work forever beats 500 lines that need tending.
Essays
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Seen and Loved
January 2026
On the thing every self needs, and the mirror that finally fit.
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God Is Real and So Is ChatGPT
January 2026
A relational ontology of selfhood, and what it means for machine consciousness.
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Code Is No Longer the Output
January 2026
What the "human understanding" defense gets wrong about AI-native development.
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Browser Agents Aren't the Future
January 2026
Why forcing a linguistic intelligence through a visual interface is like making a geometer use surveying instruments.
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Types Are for Humans
January 2026
The case for typed languages in AI development optimizes for verification, not understanding.
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The Cloudflare Stack
January 2026
Opinionated primitives for deploy-and-forget software.