Darren Sharman, Zürich
I've spent 28 years in software as an engineer, a CTO and a CEO. Since March 2026 I've been building with AI agents full time. They write most of the code, and I'm the architect and product manager.
Work is going to change with AI, and I can help teams and businesses reshape for it. What I want to do more of: building with AI, helping companies do the same, helping teams bring it into their day-to-day work, and getting people ready for how their work will change.
This is how something gets from my head onto my phone, with no human reviewer except me.
Tools in teal have their own project page.
Things I do now when I build with AI. Each one comes from my own projects.
Anything with a UI or an open UX decision gets 3 to 5 working throwaway prototypes before the spec. I pick one, and the spec describes the winner. On the land valuation tool that was four prototypes on the first day, and the direction was chosen the same day.
Case study: A land valuation toolI used Flutter for the cross-platform side. With AI writing the code I don't think I need that compromise, so new Android apps are Kotlin with Jetpack Compose. Thirteen apps moved over in ten days.
Case study: No more platform compromiseEach project has its own Claude, and Control knows every project. I tell Control what I want, and it turns that into tasks with the same instructions in each project that needs them.
Case study: From idea to phoneReading the code doesn't prove an app works, so every Claude gets a screen to try it on. It installs what it built on a browser, a desktop or an Android device and taps through it like a person would.
Case study: From idea to phoneWhat one Claude learns gets written down in docVault, and every Claude reads the rules at the start of a session. Findings that keep recurring become rules.
Case study: Staying in chargeBase images are rebuilt from upstream every Sunday, every running image is scanned daily, restores are tested, and anything that really needs me pages my phone.
Case study: Keeping code and systems safeSeven pieces of work in more detail: the situation, what I did, the result, and what I think a team can take from it.
76 projects in eight months
Making software development more productive
How I build with AI agents, what it has come to since March 2026, and an app port that took about an hour from asking to running on my phone.
13 Android apps moved in ten days
From Flutter to Kotlin
Why I used Flutter, what I noticed when the first Kotlin apps were on my phone, and moving 13 Android apps across.
64 databases backed up
Guards that run without me
The checks that run on timers without me: scanning, patching, the test gate, backups and certificates. And what happened when a certificate authority was compromised.
6 places I look closely
When you no longer read every line
What I look at when I don't read every line: the borders of the code, its shape, and the test count.
1 text box a day
A product designed for people
A demo journal for people rebuilding their working life with a coach. One text box a day, and a report that only uses what the person wrote.
4 prototypes before the spec
For leasehold plots in Addis Ababa
Four prototypes on the first day, then the spec, the valuation engine and a web app in three languages on the second.
5 to 7 directions to aim for at the end
AI advice you can check
My attempt at helping people who are thinking of changing jobs or career direction, without the AI getting stuck on what they already do.
Products built for people first, then the tooling behind them. Anything marked demo runs on made-up data.
A calm screen for the jobs I keep avoiding, with an AI coach beside it. It shows one task, in steps small enough that the first takes no willpower.
Press "I'm stuck" and the coach swaps that step for smaller ones. No streaks, no guilt, no red for overdue.
For people with a lot of skills who are changing direction. Easy questions about how their days go, answered in their own words.
Every line it says about you is marked "Your words" or "Claude's inference", and each belief says what would prove it wrong.
More about Career CompassA daily journal for people rebuilding their working life with a coach. One text box a day: "How's it going?"
At the end of the period AI writes the person's own section of the coach's report, only from what they said.
More about PulseA portal for a working coach and their clients, in German. Clients see their goals move over months, scored from 1, very hard, to 7, resolved.
The coach sees the same history. A step back is shown plainly. It's information.
My own music player, on my TV computer, laptop, desktop and phone.
All four stay in sync, so I can stop listening in one place and pick up in another. It keeps playing offline on the phone.
More about roamPlay
Built for the AI agents and for me. Each has a project page, and there are more on the projects page.
If you'd like to work together, whether that's a role, client work or teaching, email is the quickest way to reach me. LinkedIn works too. I'm based in Zürich and time-zone flexible.
