Gamble Systems
An umbrella brand for the apps, tools, and experiments I am building.
Dustin Gamble
Autonomous systems, aerospace engineering, and AI-augmented design workflows.
Active Projects
Troop 308 New Scout Advancement Plan
A first-year Scout advancement lane built around Monday meetings, monthly outings, and a dedicated 30-minute merit badge block.
Take It In
An iOS app that turns flights into cinematic, offline, chaptered journey stories.
Cozy Cauldron
An iOS potion-brewing game shaped by ideas from my kids and built with AI.
Line Starts Here
A queue simulator game where you cut through switchback lines before your patience runs out.
BioGyro
A personal metabolic feedback engine that learns how food affects you, and helps you make better decisions in real time.
AeroVerse
A multiplayer, cloud-hosted, agent-generated flight simulator launching soon.
Visual Notes
Featured Writing
The Agent Is the Tool
After building tools with AI, the next step is keeping an agent inside the tool — delegating judgment at runtime and letting the tool get smarter as the models do.
Build the Tool, Not Just the Answer
AI can act as your software programmer, helping you build bespoke tools that fit your exact workflow and scale your impact beyond one-off answers.
AI Agent Sweatshops, Union Cards, and the Future of Work
A light but practical look at agent-heavy workflows, fictional AI labor politics, and why the best outcomes still come from human judgment plus machine speed.
Courtside Prototyping: AI-Generated Apps in Real Time
From a notepad idea during my daughter's basketball game to a working tracker in minutes, this experiment shows where AI-generated software is useful today and where engineering still matters.
Selected Projects
World-Record Endurance Flight (Stalker VXE)
High-level lessons from supporting a 39-hour endurance flight record program.
Drone Innovation Garage (DIG)
An internal rapid-innovation environment for autonomous systems experimentation and mentoring.
Fast Mechanical Safe Decoder
A rapid mechanical concept for decoding combination-safe behavior with physical feedback and iteration.
Electromagnetic Flip Digit Display
A hardware experiment using electromagnetic actuation to create a compact, high-contrast flip-digit display.