Notes from the workshop.
Product updates, engineering notes, and thinking on privacy-first AI tooling.
The AI coding tool landscape in 2026: Cursor, Claude Code, Antigravity, and the rest
Cursor vs. Claude Code is the wrong fight: they’re different species. The five-category map, and the one thing most reviews miss.
Google Gemma, explained: which model is for what
Type “gemma” into your runtime and you get a wall of models: a phone-sized one, a workstation one, and odd cousins. Here’s which one you actually want.
The best open AI models you can run locally right now
The model that nearly tied the closed coding leaders is a free download, if you pick the right one for your RAM and dodge the license traps.
Siri just proved the point: the most personal AI runs on your device
Apple rebuilt Siri and rented a $1B Gemini brain, yet kept the part that reads your life on your device. The line it drew is the lesson.
Why does AI make things up? Hallucination, explained
Seventeen court rulings in one day flagged invented citations. AI isn’t lying to you: it’s guessing, exactly as it was taught.
What is an AI agent? A model in a loop, explained
The AI that fixed 2% of real bugs in 2023 fixes 95% today. The difference isn’t a smarter model: it’s a loop. Here’s how it works.
What is a token? The thing your AI actually reads, and bills you for
Why does AI say “strawberry” has two r’s? It can’t see letters, only tokens. The one unit behind its mistakes and your bill.
What is an AI workflow? (And when chat isn’t enough)
Six steps, four copy-pastes, two tabs. Then you do it all again next week. That’s not a conversation. It’s a workflow you haven’t built yet.
What is multimodal AI?
You used it this week: pointing a camera, asking out loud, hearing a reply. One model, many senses. Here's what the term actually means.
AI for the marketing team of one
You're the writer, designer, editor, and analyst. AI can't make you five people, but it can give one person the reach of an agency.
AI for ecommerce product listings: copy, photos, alt text, A+
A listing isn't a paragraph: it's a six-part conversion system. AI lifts five of them. The sixth gets your account suspended.
AI for game developers: art, voice, SFX, and dialogue
A folder of gray capsules and checkerboard textures stands between you and a playable build. Here's the AI asset team that clears it.
The only AI benchmark that matters has 20 questions, and you write it
The model that tops every leaderboard can finish last on your work. The fix takes one afternoon and twenty examples you already have.
What one hour of serious AI use actually costs
I priced a real mixed hour of AI (chat, images, video, voice) across the providers people use. The total was $13.57, and 88% of it was one clip.
AI for newsletter writers: everything but the sentences
Your subscribers bought a person, not a content feed. Four pillars where AI earns its keep, and the one block of the week it never gets near.