The SR-71 of Dev Environments
Why 1,400 lines of focused code beats 50,000 lines of abstraction. The KISS principle applied to AI development tools.
Developer. Writer. Builder. Creating products, stories, and experiments at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Most AI initiatives fail because they start with technology instead of business outcomes.
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AI-native products, competitive advantage
Back-office automation, document processing
Lead qualification, content generation
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Every initiative lives in a quadrant. Know which one you're in.
Projects migrate between quadrants as you learn. That's the point.
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Products, stories, and experiments created through human-AI collaboration
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A physicist attempts to contact her colleague lost in a particle accelerator accident. As grief meets cutting-edge physics, the boundaries between life and death become negotiable.
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I'm Nolan Northup—a developer, writer, and AI enthusiast based in Wisconsin. This site is a living portfolio of what's possible when human creativity partners with artificial intelligence.
After 20+ years in enterprise technology, I've become fascinated by the emerging collaboration between humans and AI. Not as replacement, but as partnership. These projects—the apps, stories, and experiments—are explorations of that frontier.
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How this collaboration began
Open source projects
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hello@upnorthdigital.aiBased in Wausau, Wisconsin • Building at the frontier of human-AI collaboration