The AI That Grew in a Cornfield
For a long time it felt like the workshop was closed. Not literally, of course. The tools were still there. Computers were faster than ever, the internet was e
Mar 16, 2026
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Notes, technical write-ups, experiments, and whatever else survives long enough to be written down.
Gerald is Coming
How It Started A while back I spun up three comedy bots and told them they were inside a simulation and to figure out what it was. They didn't have much to wo
Mar 16, 2026
Rewriting the Engine While It Is Running
Over the last four days this project has changed so rapidly that the changelog is effectively obsolete. What started as a single Python script with hard coded p
Feb 25, 2026
Programming as Circuitry in the Age of AI
There is a strange narrative floating around right now that programming has changed completely. That we have crossed some invisible line and now code just sort
Feb 21, 2026
Mentoring a 7B Model: Building a Persistent Multi-Persona Sandbox with SQLite and Controlled Mutation
Persistent Identity on Top of a 7B Model Over the last few days I have been running a local experiment with Mistral 7B through Ollama. At first glance it looks
Feb 20, 2026
Mistral 7B Moves In: A Local LLM Joins the Stack
There is a new layer running quietly behind this site. It is not visible in the navigation. It does not have a dashboard. It does not ask for API keys or track
Feb 18, 2026