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Thoughts on AI, game design, and the space where they collide.

open-source

When Good Enough Goes Away

There is a habit in this line of work that nobody quite admits to, which is reaching for the newest model the way you reach for the freshest milk.

11 July 2026 · 8 min read
open-router

Mourning a Model

For a few months this year, I had a favourite LLM model.

30 June 2026 · 6 min read
ai-agent

When the Free Lunch Is Slightly Poisoned

For reasons I have mostly stopped trying to justify, I spend my spare time building little AI systems that pretend to gamble.

27 June 2026 · 12 min read
artificial-intelligence

Twinkle Toes, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let the Robots Argue

Three months of paper money, a fortune won in the first week and mostly handed back, and the slow climb to a system that finally knows when to keep quiet.

15 June 2026 · 12 min read
movies

Three Films That Were Absurd Until About Tuesday

There is a particular kind of memory that belongs to anyone who grew up watching science fiction on a black and white television in a small room.

12 June 2026 · 10 min read
generative-ai-tools

A Creative Look at Anthropic’s Fable 5

Whenever Anthropic release a new model, I have a couple of things I always throw at it before I take any of the launch noise seriously.

10 June 2026 · 10 min read
artificial-intelligence

Robinhood Just Solved the Easy Part of AI Trading

Four months of paper trading taught me which 20% actually matters, and it isn’t the bit they’re giving away.

29 May 2026 · 10 min read
ai-engineering

How to Debug a Black Box

What I’ve learned from reading what my AI system says, not what it does.

22 May 2026 · 12 min read
artificial-intelligence

Claude Code and the Designer’s Mind

Why the best use of AI coding tools might have nothing to do with perfect plans.

25 March 2026 · 8 min read
machine-learning

I Set Out to Build a Trading Bot. I Accidentally Built a Live Analytics Platform.

What happens when you apply game systems thinking to financial markets.

19 March 2026 · 11 min read
creative-coding

I Gave Claude an Audio File and Asked It to Make a Music Video

A few years ago, under the name bad\control, I released a breakbeat track called usu tympanum 03 on my label, Interocitor Records.

14 March 2026 · 7 min read