{"slug": "from-the-factory-floor-to-ai-developer-tools-that-run-in-my-own-plant", "title": "From the factory floor to AI developer: tools that run in my own plant", "summary": "A self-taught developer with 13 years of experience on the factory floor of a steel-tube manufacturer has built a suite of AI-powered tools to solve real production problems. The tools include PIPEZ, a shift and part-count progressive web app running on Cloudflare Workers; a tool-management app with optimistic concurrency and a local AI assistant; and DeepCode, an agentic AI coding client with swarm mode. The developer emphasizes that hands-on production experience provides a critical advantage in building practical AI solutions.", "body_md": "For 13 years I have worked in production at a steel-tube manufacturer. Not in an office — on the floor, with the machines, the night shifts, the handovers at 6 a.m.\n\nA few years ago I started building software in my free time. Not tutorials for their own sake — tools that solve problems I actually see every day.\n\nIn production you learn one thing fast: it does not matter what looks good on a slide. It matters what works at shift handover. That perspective turned out to be my biggest advantage as a self-taught developer — I know the problem before I write the first line.\n\n**PIPEZ — a shift & part-count PWA.** Offline-capable, running on Cloudflare Workers + D1, live in production to capture shift and piece-count data that used to live on paper.\n\n**A tool-management app.** A multi-user client-server app with optimistic concurrency and a local AI assistant, used daily in the office to manage the lifecycle of dies in tube production.\n\n**DeepCode — an agentic AI coding client.** Electron + React + TypeScript, with its own tool loop, a swarm mode, and CI/tests. The project I am proudest of.\n\nPlus multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and n8n automations that run every day.\n\nPython/FastAPI, TypeScript/React, Node, Docker, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Cloudflare Workers, MCP, computer vision.\n\nI will be writing here about the bridge I keep coming back to: real production experience plus building with AI. If you are automating something messy and real, I would love to compare notes.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-the-factory-floor-to-ai-developer-tools-that-run-in-my-own-plant", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/maurice_putinas_bc9141cbc/from-the-factory-floor-to-ai-developer-tools-that-run-in-my-own-plant-1f58", "published_at": "2026-06-20 21:23:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-20 21:39:13.577278+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-products", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["Cloudflare", "DeepCode", "PIPEZ", "FastAPI", "TypeScript", "React", "Docker", "PostgreSQL"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-the-factory-floor-to-ai-developer-tools-that-run-in-my-own-plant", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-the-factory-floor-to-ai-developer-tools-that-run-in-my-own-plant.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-the-factory-floor-to-ai-developer-tools-that-run-in-my-own-plant.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-the-factory-floor-to-ai-developer-tools-that-run-in-my-own-plant.jsonld"}}