I'm Hix.
I build under Hixon.Studio — a place to test ideas, ship them publicly, and figure things out in the open.
How I got here
Back in February 2026, I started getting pulled deeper into AI and the tech world in general. It started with curiosity. I already knew the basics — ChatGPT had been around for years, and like most people around me, I leaned on it every day. But I wanted to understand what was actually happening underneath it.
I don't come from a traditional software background. For over six years I've been a software production manager at Pump Peelz, a company that makes custom, decorative patches and stickers for insulin pumps and CGMs — turning medical devices people have no choice but to wear into something that finally feels like their own. I work with code there every day: building it into our software files, uploading new products to the site, and keeping track of the data behind all of it.
It's not the standard picture of a tech job — but I've come to believe there isn't one. There are countless paths to being handed a problem inside a codebase or a website and finding your way to a solution. AI has quietly collapsed the old idea that only a small, select group of people are allowed to do these things.
Trying to figure out what OpenClaw was opened a wormhole. OpenClaw pulled me into Claude Code. Claude Code pulled me into agents, then Cursor, then everything after it. The deeper I went, the more I realized this wasn't a gimmick — it was a real glimpse of where the world could be heading, and a tool that could change my life and a lot of other people's.
A lot of people still don't know what's genuinely possible right now — through frontier models or open source. And open source is catching up faster than most expected, which I think is a good thing. It keeps the game fair and honest, instead of a handful of labs deciding who does and doesn't get to use this kind of intelligence.
Somewhere in that rabbit hole, my entire perception of what is possible changed. Claude Code made the technical side of building feel less like a locked door, and more like a language I could slowly learn to speak.
What I build with
Claude Code and Cursor daily for building — writing code, navigating codebases, and mapping out projects. ChatGPT 5.6 for visual direction, layouts, coloring, and shaping how things feel.
Elsewhere
Where I'm headed
Right now, most of what I'm building points toward Hackyard — small, community-driven hackathons where every project actually gets seen. I'm not just trying to launch a product; I'm trying to grow a community around it.
A big part of that is promoting other builders — the ones who'd otherwise go unnoticed. If AI is going to let more people make real things, then the least I can do is help make sure that work gets in front of people instead of quietly disappearing.
I'm figuring it out as I go, learning from my successes and my failures at the same time. That's what Hixon.Studio is really for — to build, test, learn, fail, improve, and share the whole process out in the open.
— Hix