Building
Making things with AI: coding, local models, and open weights.
26 posts
- Insight GCC Drew the AI Line at Fifteen Lines
- Field Note Field Note: The open-source argument I'd been missing
- Insight From Custom Code to Conversational Prompts
- Insight The Donkey Work Doesn't Need a Genius
- Insight Kimi K3 Is Open. I Still Can't Run It.
- Field Note Field Note: Open Knowledge Format
- Insight You Feel Faster. Are You?
- Insight Your Code Review Process Isn't Built for This Volume
- Insight Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
- Insight The Government Just Told You to Stop Vibe Coding Without Guardrails
- Insight Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
- Insight Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
- Insight Anthropic Built MCP, Got Everyone to Use It, Then Gave It Away
- Insight The Productivity Numbers Are Real. The Quality Question Isn't Settled.
- Insight GitHub Added Secret Scanning to Its MCP Server. This Is What Good Security Integration Looks Like.
- Insight DeepSeek Didn't Just Train Better—They Changed How Transformers Think
- Newsletter SoN 34: What Will You Vibe Code Next Year?
- Newsletter SoN 28: How (and Why) to Build A Voice Agent
- Insight You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI
- Insight Digital Resilience: From Concept to Award-Winner in 48 Hours
- Insight Boost Your Creative Writing with Local AI Models
- Insight Why Local AI Models Deserve a Closer Look
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #011: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #010: Photorealistic images in MidJourney, creative AI predictions for the next 5 years, AI tool of the week and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #007: Data vis in Claude, new service launch, what AI is saying about you and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #006: Content ownership, BlueSky, critical thinking, voice cloning and more.