I build AI products from curiosity.
Every build ships to real users. Affix is live. PRISM is the system I built to ship it. This is what comes next.
Built from my own curiosity.
For years, I helped build what other people had already decided should exist. rodneybuilds exists so I can build from my own curiosity instead.
It's a home for the products, systems, and experiments I create under my own name, using AI to learn faster, ship more often, and make the process visible as I go. This site is the lab, the portfolio, and the proof.
Every build is meant to leave something behind: a working product, a reusable system, or a hard-earned lesson that makes the next one better.
What I've built.
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The clarity-first build system I created to turn ideas into working software without starting from code.
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The engine behind everything here.
PRISM is the clarity-first build system I created to solve intent drift. The slow loss of vision that happens when a clear idea moves through prompts, tools, design decisions, architecture choices, and AI-generated code. Without a system, AI can produce a lot quickly. But speed can scatter the work.
Define what must be true for the product to feel right.
Clarify what the product needs to do.
Shape how people will experience it.
Define what needs to exist underneath.
Turn the plan into a working product.
Each stage creates a clear artifact. Each artifact feeds the next step. Human approval gates keep the work aligned before moving forward, so AI can help with execution without taking over judgment. I created PRISM because no existing system matched how I think, how I envision products, or the standards I care about. The core insight is simple: AI makes execution easier. It does not replace taste, direction, or judgment.
Complexity is a failure of clarity.
What a week of building looks like.
A week of building at rodneybuilds is a loop: clarify the idea, scope the smallest useful version, shape the experience, structure the system, make the product, test it, break it, fix it, ship it, and document what actually happened.
Because I'm not a developer, I don't start from code. I start from clarity. I use PRISM to turn raw intent into a buildable path, then use AI to help execute while I stay focused on direction, user experience, and whether the product still matches the original vision.
Every build leaves something behind: a working product, a reusable system, a better prompt, a sharper decision, or a hard-earned lesson that makes the next one stronger.
The site doesn't just say I build.
It shows the work moving.
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You don't have to become someone else to start building.
I've genuinely fallen in love with AI development. The idea of having an agent at your fingertips that can help build almost anything you can clearly specify is invigorating. It feels like rediscovering the feeling of playing a video game for the first time: that sense of wonder, possibility, and total immersion. Except now the game is real life.
rodneybuilds is for people who feel that same pull: especially non-developers with ideas, curiosity, taste, and high standards who want to build things but never had a traditional path into software. You can create systems that match how you think. With enough clarity, AI can help turn more of your ideas into something real.
“Now is the time to learn. I want to understand it by using it, while the tools are still young and the rules are still being written.”
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