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Am I getting interested in civic engineering?

I often joke about using the “dark arts” [AI] for good ~ could this be my outlet?

Rebecca Powell's blog 1 links

Cheap writing, expensive reading, and a post about God's admin panel

Google Docs and Drive support markdown natively

A short thought on Google Docs and Drive adding native markdown support.

Explainer Toy

A small interactive widget inside an explanation that lets the reader change one thing and watch what happens. A toggle that switches a bug on and off, or a button that makes two people edit at the same time, are toys. Each one is built aro…

Chat Phreaking

The practice of using unusual or adversarial message patterns to get a language model to do something its guardrails are meant to prevent. The name borrows from *phone phreaking*, the hobby of exploiting the telephone network to do things t…

Qwen-Image-2.1

Open-weight, but research-only license.

Jev: Decisions, Not Strings

Is this the formalization of commercial world-view classifier models?

What Makes an Agent "Deep"?

LangChain has a definition of a "deep agent." I'm intrigued but not sold — thinking out loud about whether the term earns its keep.

Coming Around on Hermes

I was deeply skeptical of anything agent-shaped. Then I put Hermes to work on an old Windows box and a little homelab — and I get it now.

Meat Proxy

A person who mindlessly relays an AI's output to others instead of engaging with it themselves — passing along generated text without reading, understanding, or validating it, adding nothing beyond being the human in the loop. Popularized b…

Generator Agent

A single, one-shot LLM call that produces its output directly — no turns, no tool use, no observation loop. Less a formal architecture than a useful counterpoint to the ReAct agent: where ReAct interleaves reasoning and action over many ste…

ReAct Agent

An agent pattern that interleaves reasoning and acting: the model alternates between natural-language 'thoughts' (reasoning traces) and actions (tool calls, queries), feeding each observation back into the next reasoning step. Introduced by…

AI is for coding and memes

not for gfs or ig bots - Maria

Learning Faster, Not Less: How AI Helped Me Discover git add --patch

I asked Claude for help splitting a commit. What I got wasn't just a solution—it was a git feature that changed my workflow and a reminder that AI tools can accelerate learning rather than replace it.

My AI Learning Journey - Reflections and Lessons

A comprehensive reflection on everything I've learned so far about using AI tools in web development, creative projects, and problem-solving. From major successes to common pitfalls, here's what I wish I'd known when I started.