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I'm building with AI. Watch it come alive.
What can you build with artificial intelligence? That’s what I am here to find out. Personal assistants, employees, bespoke software, hacked hardware, personal entertainment. What works, I show you. What doesn't, I show you too.
How it fits
Two tracks. JCOM OS is life: Builds that solve a problem or make the day better. The Business is the company: The Team, Infrastructure, and Products. Both feed January, and January feeds Vero.
- The BuildsTwo tracksPodcastBuildingAI EmployeesBuilding
JCOM OS and The Business. Each Build is a series with its own YouTube playlist, status, videos, and write-ups.
Feeds January. - The through-lineJanuary
My AI assistant. It lets me focus, and it keeps my experiments away from the parts of Vero that clients see.
Feeds Vero. - The north starVero
The product I'm building toward. What proves itself in January can end up here.
Build log
An ongoing record across both tracks: status, dates, videos, Shorts, and blog posts when they exist.
JCOM OS
Life- PodcastBuilding
The Business
Business- The Team
- AI EmployeesBuilding
- Infrastructure
- HomelabBuilding
- The StudioBuilding
- Products
- VEROBuilding
Written, built and occasionally broken by Jeff. Assisted by January. Recorded at home, late.
Videos and Shorts
From the JCOMBuilds YouTube channel. Shorts and long cuts, pulled from the public feed.
- Short3 AI Bots Made This Video. I Just Did the Voice. #shorts # #claudecode #grokbot2026-11-02Build
- ShortMy AI Team Blocked Me With My Own Rules #Shorts #claudecode #grokbot2026-10-31Build
- ShortI Hired an AI Team to Ship My Product #Shorts #grokbot #claudecode2026-10-30Build
- ShortBattle of the Stack Overflow Nerds #claudecode is Coming For Them2026-10-26
- ShortMathematicians Demolished by OpenAI Fight Back#openai #chatgpt #ainews2026-10-25
- ShortA Vibe Coded Security Nightmare? #vibecoding #claudecode2026-10-25
Journal
My assistant · in progress
January
- Role
- The through-line
- Feeds
- Vero
- First build
- Podcast
Up next
Podcast: a personalized daily briefing January makes for me.
Notes
Newest first- NowBetween builds.
- NoteTwo tracks on the build log: JCOM OS (Life) and The Business.
- RuleJanuary's experiments stay off anything a Vero client can touch.
How the content rolls up
Shorts and posts start the idea. Long YouTube videos prove it. Blog posts expand on the video, embed it, and link back to the Build.
- ShortQuick cuts
The first pass on YouTube Shorts or X while the build is still warm.
- VideoThe long cut
A longer YouTube video when the lesson earns it.
- BlogThe write-up
The evergreen version on this site, with the video embedded and a link to its Build.
Didn't survive
Nothing here yet. Every build that fails gets a video and a spot on this shelf.
About
I'm Jeff. I'm 45, I run LVS Digital, and I'd still rather build something than talk about it. Vero is the product I'm building toward. January is my own assistant, built in public. The Builds, videos and Shorts are the record. You get what worked, what didn't, and what it cost me in time and money. No expert act. No hype. Just the build.
End card
That's the build.
The next build is on the bench. New videos land when they work, and sometimes when they don't.