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Putting AI on the Therapy Couch

Today, Anthropic dropped their newest, biggest model. Sort of. They published reams of information about Claude Mythos Preview, their largest and most capable model yet, but declined to actually release it –…
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The Overnight Webcam App

I’ve been working with teams on applying Dark Factory principles to build software with AI. There are a few tools to do this, but my favorite is trycycle.ai. It’s just a skill.…
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Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle

Companies are now producing Dark Factories – engines that turn specs into shipping software. The implementations can be complex and sometimes involve Mad Max metaphors. But they don’t have to be like…
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You Don’t Write the Code. You Don’t Read the Code Either.

A few months ago, I walked into Justin McCarthy’s office at StrongDM and noticed something wrong with his colleague Jay’s monitor. He had a Google Spreadsheet open. Columns, rows, formatting – it…
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The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory

In my last post, I wrote about technical deflation. We’re seeing the cost of code is dropping so fast that we need to change our tech debt payment plans. The smart teams…
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This is a Time of Technical Deflation

Day over day, year over year, AI is driving down the cost of writing code. Economists have a word for what happens when stuff keeps getting cheaper: deflation. And you do things…
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I made the XKCD impossible app without any words

I’ve been impressed with AI Studio’s Apps for prototyping. https://aistudio.google.com/apps So I decided to give it the ultimate challenge: I pasted in XKCD 1425, and nothing else. I’ll let you be the…
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Sora Dresses Me Funny: GenAI As Fashion Consultant

My wife pointed out that most of my shirts predate the pandemic, and it was time to shop for something new. This is not something I enjoy. So, like most things I…
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I accidentally ported Steve Yegge’s Beads to Windows

Tuesday, 9:40am, Seattle. Whatsapp buzzed. Harper sent a link – a new project from Steve Yegge that makes AI agents more effective. Worth a try. I opened Codex CLI* in Powershell and…
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Slot Machine Development

Something new is possible. Four weeks ago, I braved the gaggle of Waymos nosing around the Presidio to check out Connected Stack. I plopped next to my buddy James Cham, notorious partner…
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