Building Burly Mingo 🦩 with Kiro
What started as a simple company site turned into a real-world experiment in human-AI collaboration. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned about clarity, process, and security along the way.
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AI Upload Guard: a local, human-friendly pre-check for uploads
I built a small, local tool to stop obviously risky content from slipping into AI tools, tickets, or vendor portals. Here’s what it does, why it exists, and how to use it on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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