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From Tool to System — RAG, Agents, and the Studio Stack
A model is a tool. A studio AI is a system. The distance between them is the distance between using ChatGPT and running a practice in which AI has become cognitive infrastructure. Most architects in 2026, three years into daily use, are sti...
The Hidden Layers — Compute, Energy, Labour, and the Bias You Will Reproduce in Built Form
The model is the visible layer. Underneath it sits a stack the architect rarely looks at — compute infrastructure, energy and water demand, the human labour that made the model behave at all, and the training corpora that decide which build...
Training Data, Fine-Tuning, LoRAs — The Path to a Studio-Trained AI
The base image model that ships out of Black Forest Labs, Stability AI, Google, Midjourney, or any other model lab is not born with a studio’s judgement. It is trained or adapted on vast mixtures of image-text material: filtered public web...
Multimodal — How AI Holds Text and Image Together
The popular shorthand for multimodal is that the AI can now see images. Not wrong — only shallow enough to make the next two years of architectural AI work harder than it needs to be. The deeper version: the model is aligning language, imag...
Diffusion — How AI Paints from Noise
The most useful word in image-AI is also the most badly named. We say the model “generated” an image—as if it began with a blank canvas and laid down strokes the way a draughtsman would. It did nothing of the kind. The model began with pure...
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