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title: Not a Single API Evangelist Post in March
date: 2026-03-31T09:00:00.000Z
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  - AI
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Storytelling
  - API Evangelist
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I did not write a single post on API Evangelist in March. I have gone months before without writing a story, but this month is primarily due to artificial intelligence. I am all in on using Claude and Gemini (not so much ChatGPT anymore) to tackle and scale what I am doing at Naftiko. Not because I am an AI believer, but I need to understand how it works, and how my customers and partners are putting to work. But as I close out the month, I can confidently say I was able to automate and scale what I delivered for Naftiko, but I failed completely at delivering anything that Kin Lane or API Evangelist needed on the personal and professional front due to AI.

Artificial Intelligence sucks the nutrients out of the room. The emotion and opinion that drives API Evangelist was to be found. That fast pace frenzied work to deliver upon my Q1 goals for Naftiko, let me pretty numb and fatigued when it came to API Evangelist. I have a handful of one line notes in my notebook about what I wanted to write about on API Evangelist, but nothing made it to editorial completion, let alone published to the website. Working with Claude and Gemini via VSCode, the desktop, and in the browser keeps you feeling like you are producing but with API Evangelist stories as the metric, it doesn't leave you with many deep or original thoughts about much.

In April, I will have to take more drastic measures to ensure that I get off the AI hamster wheel for a bit and think more deeply about what is going on around me. The experience is rather addictive, and reminds me of previous and more unhealthy moments in my life—each time I pick my head up with the urge to share how cool AI is, and what I am doing and why it matters so much. Claude really conditions you to stay put at the slot machine, and even while writing this I feel the urge to flip back through my VScode projects to see what my Naftiko "agents" are up to. The ability to just stay put here in this notebook and write words has been seriously diminished.

I am hyper aware of what I am losing because it has taken me so many years to build up the momentum. I am also aware of the state of my storytelling because of my wife and partner in crime being so immersed in real life, having opted to not participate in the AI hustle. When you combine my daily Claude usage with reading of actual books, writing of my stories in my notebook, and walks and deep daily talks with the love of my life—you realize just how nutrient deficient Claude feels. The close thing I can conjure up is Las Vegas. You know that feeling in the desert and air conditioning that leaves you gasping for meaningful life? It is that, but all of the time every day. We are all working in Vegas now—full time.

If you like Vegas. If you like gambling. If you find the pace of this environment exciting, and you aren't grounded in the real diverse world, books, music, art, and you don't have someone challenging your reality—I can see how you think it is absolutely amazing, and something you want to share. I have that feeling multiple times a day, and it always feels like talking about my trip to Vegas or talking someone into taking a trip with me to Vegas—there are only some people in my life that would think this is a good idea. So I tend to not speak up, keeping my "excitement" to myself. Vegas is tough to articulate to some people in my life, and other people I know live and work in Vegas, and they do not know anything else.