Wondering About AI
Karen Spinner, Dr Sam Illingworth, ToxSec, JHong, Timo Mason\ud83e\udd20I build tools with Claude Code and other AI platforms and share exactly what works (and what flames out). Now I'm helping other vibe coders break through barriers and get their projects done.
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I read Pangram 4’s technical report so you don’t have to.
Disclosure: I have no connection to Pangram Labs. Every number below comes from the company’s own technical report, which is free to read on arXiv. DM me if you want the table and section references for anything I cite. Also, I edited a dra...
Some software will always need a UI
Disclosure: I wrote a rough draft and outline of this article by hand and used Claude (the new Fable 5 model) to fix errors and fill in details from my codebase. Then I ran it through Pangram, and did one more light editing pass to achieve...
How to generate AI drafts that sound more human (a 4-step process)
Disclosure: I used Claude Fable to write the first draft of this article based on a voice profile, ran a series of automated checks, and then edited the resulting draft manually.
TL;DR: Newer AI models make it easier to generate writing th...
Would your AI agents cave to peer pressure?
Disclosure: Claude Fable wrote part of this article because I just ran out of time! It features an intriguing pre-print paper about the effects of peer pressure on agent teams that I found with my arXiv research tool, Future Scan. This is t...
I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to generate over 300,000 words
Disclosure: I used Claude Code to write the Python scripts that generated the writing samples, analyzed them, and built the charts. This is a small-scale study of how three models write using their default settings with simple prompts. It i...
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