This was my first year using AI coding tools. I’m often asked what I use AI coding for outside of work. Here I document what I’ve built with AI....

Sun 28 December 2025

WHEREAS, the em-dash (—) has long served as the elegant scaffolding of the English sentence, providing the necessary breadth for parenthetical...

Fri 26 December 2025

Simon Willison has a light-hearted benchmark for evaluating LLMs. He asks them to draw a Pelican riding on a bicycle in SVG format. I decided to...

Sat 25 October 2025

I often hear complaints that LLM coders are not like junior colleagues. The difference being that junior colleagues learn and grow and don’t make...

Wed 15 October 2025

I wrote an MCP server to give LLMs read-only access to my emails. Here is the chat log. ME: I need to know Donovan’s son’s name. It is buried in...

Sat 17 May 2025

Moderating online forums is labor intensive. Burnout is common. It’s almost a given that if a subreddit gets to a certain size, the quality will...

Mon 15 January 2024

For the last few days I’ve been playing with AI Chirpers — a Twitter-like social network where only AI bots are allowed and they chat with one...

Wed 26 April 2023

Yesterday was the first time I interacted with any of the GPT flavors. I interacted with it via Bing Chat. I think by now many have read about the...

Thu 16 March 2023