Dumb and Dumber
In the last decade and a half, Engagement feeds have crushed your ability to think. Now AI shows up selling a replacement. Your slop-rage is righteous, but misaimed. One sentence of legislation fixes…
AI turned every engineer into a manager. Nobody trained the managers.
Someone whose code I respect wrote this month that working with AI feels more like leadership than coding. You stop issuing precise instructions and start setting context, giving examples,…
Dear Slop Cannon Engineer
Someone posted this confident assertion online: In a year or three from now, no one will be writing code by hand or reading it manually. I won't deny that it's possible that it's true, but it seems…
How to Use AI to Help Design and Build Your Pond
AI can be an incredibly useful tool when you’re planning a pond. It can calculate pond volume, help size filters, work out flow rates, check your maths and talk through
Does this make ChatGPT Codex half-Mac-assed?
On The Talk Show 452, “A Scam Held Together with Patriotism and Golden Paint”, John Gruber said: One of the things that, to me, just defines a Mac app is being able to open whatever the…
Human-like isn't the same as good: Rethinking Conversational AI's North Star
There's an assumption baked into most conversational AI roadmaps that nobody really questions anymore: more human-like is better. Friendlier persona, more natural turn-taking, more emotional…
Seven Local LLMs, One 12GB RTX 5070
My RTX 5070 has 12GB of VRAM, which is enough for smaller local models but not enough to hold every model I wanted to try. The Windows PC with the 5070 attached also has 64GB of system RAM, so a…
On Family History and AI
Earlier this year, I wrote a post about using AI in your study of the Gospel. The feedback has been great. It's clear that many of us are trying to find the best way to use these new…
LLM's overuse of certain words
LLM’s overuse certain words in their conversations, each model has its favourite, but claude’s favourite one is “load-bearing”. It is as if it wants to be taken seriously or…
AI and Academic Publishing: A System Eating Itself
The conversation about AI and academic publishing fixates on who used a chatbot, who disclosed it, and whose detector caught […]
Lost in translation: What I learned trying to speedrun subtitles with LLMs
Several months ago, a good friend of mine, who knows I’m into birdwatching, suggested I watch a YouTube documentary called LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching. Little did I know at the…
The computer has been surprising us
The computer has been surprising us A while back, I wrote about my entry into artificial intelligence through the unlikely path of artificial life. In this post, I reflect on a recent event that…
Forgive Me Father, For I Have Slopped
So. AI Slop. Fun topic, isn’t it? Anyone you talk to seems to either discuss it as the second coming or the antichrist. It’s rare you come into contact with someone who treats it like what it is -…
Finally, a bit of respect from the robot
I get lots and lots of respect these days. I get called “sir” wherever I go. I notice it because when I was younger, I didn’t hear it much except from people who were trying to sell…
Local WebGPU Agent Lab with Transformers.js
An interactive 2.6 billion parameter agent that runs in the browser with Transformers.js, WebGPU, and a small sandbox of browser tools.
A Few Gaussians Is All You Need: SSOG-Attention That Steers Instead of Scores
I swapped the transformer's matchmaking service for a handful of Gaussians, and it beat content scoring without comparing a single pair of tokens. Crack open any vision transformer and you'll find…
Make Claude Code sufferable with this one easy trick
With every auto-update, Claude Code has gotten better at writing software. What it hasn’t improved at, tragically, is communicating to me in a way that doesn’t make me want to punch it…
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