I'm a senior developer. Day to day, that means building AI solutions for customers, and building traditional enterprise software when that's what the problem actually calls for. JonathonDoesAI is the new home for the AI side of that: a YouTube channel, this blog, and — if you're a customer who hasn't met me yet — a way to find me.
Three years ago I started a company, Code Nurturers, to solve problems for small businesses. It did what I needed it to do, but it's a mouthful to type and a mouthful to spell — not exactly built for people finding you by word of mouth, or by search. We're in an AI-first era now, and I want my personal brand doing two jobs at once: teaching developers, and being findable by customers who haven't met me yet.
I have a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Texas A&M, and three years of experience teaching at coding bootcamps before Code Nurturers. Teaching is probably why "explain how this actually works" is the default mode for most of what I write here.
My friend Joe got me into AI. We ran a Halloween webinar together back when ChatGPT was all anyone could talk about — and that was enough to pull my attention permanently toward this side of the industry.
I'll be honest — I'm still figuring out the creator side of this. But 2026 feels like the year personal brand stops being optional, because AI has handed everyone the ability to build. If everyone can ship code now, the thing that's still scarce is a person worth following while they do it.
AI makes humans more creative, not less — that's the belief this whole blog runs on. But I don't think our industry has it all figured out. Model cost, AI safety, and agentic engineering are the three problems I keep coming back to, and I expect a lot of what ends up here will be me working through them in public rather than presenting tidy answers.
That's the "why." The tutorials and case studies are the "what" — starting with the last two posts, and a lot more to come.
