
Jose Marcelius Hipolito
Senior Fullstack Developer @ AKQA
I build scalable web applications
Featured Work
FYP Creator Platform
A creator platform I designed and built solo — from database schema to deployment. The experience of wearing every hat on a real product.
TitanFX Dashboard Modernization
Solo frontend migration of a live trading platform. Thousands of daily users, zero tolerance for downtime, and a backend team that thinks in jQuery.
Developer Experience Tools
Three tools born from specific pain — a CS team that couldn't reproduce bugs, QAs blocked by stale cache, and translations that wouldn't update on lower environments.
Latest from the Log
AI Chose Nukes
A King's College simulation ran three AI models through 21 nuclear crisis war games. Across 329 turns, not one chose to de-escalate.
Anthropic's Safety Pledge is Horsesh*t
In the same week, Anthropic publicly refused to remove guardrails under Pentagon pressure — and quietly removed the training-pause commitment it had held since 2023.
541 Hours of Claude Code in 20 Days
82% success rate sounds great until you examine the 18% — entire sessions lost to context limits, wrong approaches, and one mission that generated 1.7GB of garbage output.
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