Nebula on building with no team

Alexander Grosse, building the Nebula AI assistant solo, documents the experiment in two parts. Part one — written after three decades in software — describes what he calls the "Dark Factory pattern": AI handles coding, product management, design review, and QA, while the human handles direction, user research, and the design decisions that need taste. Part two, three weeks later, is the honest look-back: the headline finding is "addiction to velocity" — when generating features is cheap, the urge to skip user testing, validation, and product discipline is overwhelming, and managing a dark factory of agents is itself a substantial engineering job (architecture, quality gates, manual review of user-facing surfaces). A candid two-part log of what AI-augmented solo building looks like in practice.

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