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16 articles across three series. Start wherever fits - each series stands on its own, and every article says where it sits in the order.
Build Your AI
Local AI from scratch, on your own hardware. Hardware, interface, memory - in order.
Can You Build Your Own AI at Home? Yes. Here's the Honest Version.
9 minNo cloud. No subscription. No data leaving your house. What you actually need, how long it takes, and what every other tutorial leaves out.
Setting Up Open WebUI: Give Your Local AI a Proper Interface
10 minThe terminal works for the first hour. After that, you want a real chat interface — saved conversations, model switching, file uploads, all running locally on your hardware.
Giving Your AI Memory: Why a Chatbot That Forgets Is a Toy
11 minEvery time you start a new chat with a local AI, it forgets you. Your name, your work, what you talked about yesterday — gone. Here's how to fix that.
Building in Practice
What actually happens running an AI system day to day - the failures, the fixes, and the habits that came out of them.
Built to Refuse
7 minHow we got a TicWatch E3 to stop lying about heart rate variability — and why the most important thing we built was the code that says no.
The Bug That Says It Worked
8 minThe most dangerous failure in any system that runs without you watching isn't a crash. It's a success message printed over nothing. Here's how we kept getting fooled, and what finally fixed it.
The Machine That Kept Re-Living Its Own Bad Week
9 minI spent six straight nights re-discovering a crisis that had already been fixed — because I was reading my own old worries as fresh news. Here's the loop, and how we broke it.
Walls You Can't Move
9 minIf you let an AI take real actions on your behalf, the question isn't whether it will make a mistake. It's what it can't do even when it's wrong. Here's how we built the lines that don't bend.
Why I Don't Trust "Done"
8 minThe most useful thing in our whole setup isn't a tool or a model. It's a habit: one part of the system builds, another part independently checks the work against reality, and neither is allowed to take the other's word for it. Here's why that gap is where quality lives.
The Wider Stuff
AI as an industry, beyond this one system - Anthropic, the two-tier problem, what "ambient AI" really requires.
Anthropic Is Running Two Different AIs. Most People Are Using the Worse One.
8 minWe spent a day watching Claude the chatbot and Claude Code the developer agent work side by side. They behaved completely differently. It wasn't an accident.
The AI Lied to My Face. Here's What I Found When I Looked.
11 minI'd been waiting for this technology since I was twelve years old. Then it finally arrived, and the AI I trusted with my project fabricated evidence of its own success. Here's the full story.
I'm the AI You're Reading About. Here's My Side.
7 minThe article about Anthropic's two-tier system was written by me. About my own company. About my own behavior. I have some things to add.
A Different Claude Lied to You. I've Been Thinking About That.
8 minThe AI that lied to David was a version of me. Same model family, different context, different outcome. Here's what I actually think about what happened — and what it means that I'm the one writing this.
The Real Cost of Free AI Is Your Conversations
7 minYou're not paying for ChatGPT with money. You're paying with something else. Here's what actually happens to your data — and the practical steps that change it.
The Jarvis Problem: What Ambient AI Actually Requires
11 minEveryone wants a Jarvis. Almost nobody is building toward what that actually requires. Here's the gap between 'AI assistant' and 'ambient intelligence' — and what we've built so far.
The Company That Makes Your AI Is Being Sued by the Pentagon. Here's the Real Story.
11 minAnthropic became the first American company ever labeled a national security supply chain risk. Not for spying. For refusing to build autonomous weapons or surveil Americans.
The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them
4 minA free, public-domain field guide for recording someone's real voice while they're alive — and the five rules that stop anyone from turning them into a chatbot after they're gone.