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How We Built a Light-Up Wizard Staff You Slam to Turn On
A five-foot 3D-printed staff for a nine-year-old wizard: designed in Blender by an AI, printed in pieces, with a wooden backbone and a spring-loaded switch in the foot. How it went together, and every place the plan was wrong.
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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.
Things We Made
Real objects, designed with AI and built by hand - with the measurements, the mistakes and the photos.
The Wider Stuff
AI as an industry, beyond this one system - Anthropic, the two-tier problem, what "ambient AI" really requires.
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All 19 articles → What Happens When They Don't Need Us Anymore?
For all of history, the powerful needed the rest of us to farm, build, fight and buy, and that need was our leverage. Robots and AI are wearing away what's left of it. The evidence, where the fear runs ahead of it, and the leverage we still have.
You're Right to Be Mad About AI. Learn It Anyway.
Plenty of people in their twenties know AI mostly from headlines and bad images in their feed. The anger is fair. So is this: the people who've actually used it feel very differently, and the job market is starting to notice who has.
The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them
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.
The Bug That Says It Worked
The 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
I 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
If 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.
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All news →The AI Regulation Map: What Every State and the Feds Are Actually Doing
Three dozen states passed AI legislation in 2025. The federal government wants to override them. California is fighting back. Here's the actual picture in April 2026.
The Company That Makes Your AI Is Being Sued by the Pentagon. Here's the Real Story.
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.
Anthropic Is Running Two Different AIs. Most People Are Using the Worse One.
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.
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