About three weeks ago I stopped writing my updates and this changes now.
I had things to share, but I was fighting a battle in the trenches.
About 2 months back, I started noticing something weird about NLC.
The majority of users were fine. But a small subset reported repeated bugs.
Every new feature I added felt like taking 20 steps forward and 19 steps back.
I started working with my agents to figure out why.
The answer was simple: the codebase had grown too large for the agents to handle.
When I started, I was a "vibe coder" - zero engineering background.
I let the platform grow organically:
Many features were added in isolation
We have redundant codes
Split feature owner issue
Duplicates here and there
AI makes generating code incredibly fast. But that speed can mask a structural danger.
And if you don't pay attention, the complexity will come back and bite you.
NLC is "fine." But "fine" is not enough.
I want an agent operating system that can create the output of an entire corporation, run by one person.
And to make that transition from good to great, I have to take a pause on development, and focus on stabilizing everything.
So six weeks ago, I paused development and started a stabilization project.
But every layer I uncovered forced me to learn more about actual software engineering.
When I finally hit the bottom-most layer, I realized that ‘stabilization’ is not really what I wanted
There is an entire league of difference between a weekend side project over a production-grade system, and you can’t build a skyscraper on a foundation that was designed for a single-story home.
35 hours ago, after days of scoping conversations and double-checking every assumption, I gave my lead agent the greenlight.
I abandoned the six-week stabilization project entirely.
We aren't updating NLC anymore.
We are building NLC 2.
It was a painful pivot and it cost me six weeks of work.
But it is the only way to achieve the scale I want.
My journey so far has taught me that the transition from prompt-writer to agentic engineer is brutal.
But the direction is worth it.
I am going back to monitor the build.
FELIX