What Building the Atlas Taught Me About AI
Where AI fell short building the Urbanist Atlas, five lessons on using it well, and why the whole project stays open source.
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The Atlas Data Was the Hard Part
Modeling cities as a graph, generated from federal data, to catalog 236 advocacy organizations — where AI's plausible answers for the Urbanist Atlas got expensive.
I Used AI to Build the Urbanist Atlas. Here's Why the Human Eye Is Imperative.
How I used Claude Code to build the Urbanist Atlas — the Go API, the React frontend, and why the engineer behind the keyboard stayed in control.
Introducing the Urbanist Atlas
A directory of urban advocacy groups across the US and Canada, searchable by zip/postal code.