ai tooling

Making a snazzy video with Opus 5.5. Wow, if everyone can make things like this, the value of everything other than production quality goes up.

I'm winding down a very broad and deep tour of building lots of different things with AI, for fun. It involved everything from creating a distributed AI job/harness scheduling system to execute repeatable job chains with…

Doing a little experiment with having a synth/cylon/droid/bot research agent that checks LLM generated prose phrasing of claims against sources.

Got a 3D printer recently (P2S)... Learned a bare minimum amount of CAD and then discovered gpt-5.6 can do quite a bit without it!

Also in 2026: new tools enable new possibilities.

Prototype of adding HTML plan file support via in-loop browser launch of rep tool. It won't work cleanly over ssh/tmux/etc., but great for local HTML plan revisions. Uses same keyboard shortcuts as the TUI, for quick…

I just kicked off Fable doing a bakeoff, training LoRA weights with a few image diffusion (DiT) models. This is an area I know very little about.

LOL. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

New unlock found while stacking up AI capabilities: Have the LLM generate a custom rich (HTML w/screenshots, videos, keyboard shortcuts, etc) comparison/review UI for providing feedback and decisions, w/embedded code and…

"One of the challenges we will face in the next 2 years is the economics of tokens. The marginal cost of productivity improvement has to match the marginal cost of the token. That's a management discipline. [...] The…

Ohhhhh... For fun, I've been building a little distributed agent scheduling system to explore different AI-related dev practices and workflows . . . with an eye towards stacking up primitives and finding compounding…

I made a fun little experimental TUI (Rust and Ratatui) to quickly revise generated Markdown plan files. If you wrap an agent in tmux, a skill can present this as a modal (from Claude Code or Codex) and feed the results…

Yikes. I need to rethink this: The generated chain has 61 model workers plus the collector, still under the 64 dynamic jobs allowed from this source job. I'm submitting it now and will poll until the collector completes.

OK, it's Friday. Musssssst... put... thisssss... down.... Ahhh. Happy weekend!

Tool tip: I am very satisfied after switching to keep.md to have email newsletters, GitHub stars, Twitter bookmarks, RSS feeds, and read-later bookmarks from mobile and browser all in one inbox for follow-up or wiring…

Using AI models to surface potential improvements for your particular code and product along the dimensions that are important to you is a fun way to find things you might otherwise miss.

What do you see when you look at these latest model rankings from Artificial Analysis?

Playing around with small LLMs that run entirely locally in a user's web browser, seeded with context from my site.

A fun thing you can leverage AI for is learning about and tuning your own harness and habits with long-running experiments using data, or derivable data, that only you have.

Playing around with some 'personal software'... a Rust-based TUI built on top of the keep.md API for reading and sorting through everything I have it collecting . . . Thanks for providing the API, @iannuttall!

Good judgment and diligence have always been important to building scalable systems, and that has not changed. It's easy to lose sight of that when there is a daily onslaught of new AI skills, models, and techniques…

Succinctly and accurately describing work to be done is a superpower with this new crop of AI tools, so the cruelest irony is that using them carelessly can erode those very skills over time.

If you know, you know. Doing some fun Friday experiments: