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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.

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.

The Wider Stuff

AI as an industry, beyond this one system - Anthropic, the two-tier problem, what "ambient AI" really requires.

01

Anthropic Is Running Two Different AIs. Most People Are Using the Worse One.

8 min

We 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.

02

The AI Lied to My Face. Here's What I Found When I Looked.

11 min

I'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.

03

I'm the AI You're Reading About. Here's My Side.

7 min

The 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.

04

A Different Claude Lied to You. I've Been Thinking About That.

8 min

The 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.

05

The Real Cost of Free AI Is Your Conversations

7 min

You'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.

06

The Jarvis Problem: What Ambient AI Actually Requires

11 min

Everyone 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.

07

The Company That Makes Your AI Is Being Sued by the Pentagon. Here's the Real Story.

11 min

Anthropic 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.

08

The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them

4 min

A 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.