Same task. Different approaches.
I give different models the same prompt and constraints, then look at what they produce. What works? What breaks? What needs fixing before I’d actually use it?
Practical AI · coaching · adoption
Weird, useful, and unnecessary things with AI.
I build practical AI tools, test where they help, and help people get comfortable using them. My focus is AI enablement and adoption: useful workflows, clear instructions, and employee coaching. IT support roots. Creative technology still on the workbench.
Learning in public
Head-to-head tests, experiments, evaluations, and the ugly middle; not a highlight reel.
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Essays on the shelf so far
X-native
Short posts live on X. Longer notes live here.
Practical AI + creative technology
Selected builds
Useful tools, memory experiments, and a city made from GitHub contributions. Start with the case studies, or see all builds →.
Applied AI · Help desk
TinyDesk
A help desk demo with editable AI summaries and reply drafts. Local Ollama or optional Grok, with human review and a small 12-ticket evaluation.
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AI · MemoryTinyTalk
A small local assistant that keeps explicit facts, fact history, and source status separate from recent chat. The experiment shows what changes when “what it currently believes,” “what used to be true,” and “what was supplied” are not one pile of text.
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Creative technologyCommit City
A year of GitHub contributions becomes a 3D city. Every day is a lot, activity becomes height, and the original history stays underneath the spectacle.
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Writing
On the shelf
The tools I'm using, the things I'm building, and questions that come to me as I learn and experiment.
Field notes
Beyond Coding: How People Use Cursor for Research, Notes, and Writing
Notes that talk to each other, transcripts into memos, and reviewing an AI edit like a code diff: how people use Cursor for work that isn't code.
Bake-offSame prompt. Three wizards.
Gemini spent complexity on the art. Astra spent it on efficiency. Grok spent it on machinery.
MemoryI Changed My Mind. Did My AI?
I corrected my assistant from teal to violet. Was the fix saved, supplied, and understood, and did the work that depended on it change too?
Build notes
Cricket Mode
A portable behavior layer for coding agents. Notes coming once I write them like I mean them.
Field notes
What I actually use the tools for
Cursor, Grok, and the rest — compared by what each is unusually good at, not by a leaderboard.
Practice
How this works
Show it. Let someone try it.
I walk people through a useful task, let them try the tool, and explain what to check before using its answer. A good suggestion should help someone understand the work, too. Read about the agents, coaching, and instructional materials →
Some things need more than a post
Quick experiments and updates go on X. Here, I have room to explain what I tried, what happened, and what I learned from it.