ari's space — essays by Ari Leavesley on building with AI

Ari Leavesley is a creative director applying creative direction to AI systems and workflows. The documents below cover workflows, briefs, dispatch, memory, and tools.

Building Aris Space: 8 Hours, 5 Sessions, One Site — How aris-space.com got built end-to-end with Claude in 8 hours, across 5 sessions, never breaking 50% context.
The Codex Loop: A Native App Dev Playbook — Brain in the planning model, hands in the executor, verification gates that catch black-screen surprises before they ship. The methodology that built a Mac app in three days.
I gave my LLM a Cortex — A brain-inspired memory layer that gives any LLM persistent, self-organising, auto-recalled context.
Privacy Policy — How Ari Leavesley (Pushing Squares) processes personal data when you use this site. UK GDPR aligned, version 2.1.
Stop Prompting. Start Defining Outcomes. — Most people use AI like a slot machine. The makers I respect run a workshop. Three moves to flip your output, with the workflow that built Pushing Frames as a worked example.
ARI-OS: set it up and use it — The open-source operating layer for directing background workers. How to set it up, what it gives you, and how to use it.
Warm the room, keep the grade honest — Why I built a free reading-comfort overlay for Mac, and the one macOS limit that shaped the whole thing.
540 Commits. One Human. — A week and a half as an orchestrator: 540 commits, one human, and a system that built itself. By the numbers.
Fable made me start using Codex — A stronger Claude did not replace the other models. It made matrixing Claude, Codex, Kimi and MiniMax M3 to their best tasks effortless.
Build Your Workspace Once. Then Don't Touch the Foundation Again. — How three roots make orchestration portable across agents.
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