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Working Notes - 06/03/26
The US government has been making some very odd AI choices this week around supporting the fastest-growing software company ever, but rather than duplicating the discussion on this, I will...
Working Notes - 19/02/26
This week I wanted to cover one of the interesting things that came out of Anthropic that wasn’t Sonnet 4.6. The future is not evenly distributed Anthropic release a lot...
Working Notes - 12/02/26
Busy week so I’m just going to talk about Anthropic’s new release – Opus 4.6. I will note with a raised eyebrow that GPT5.3 was released within 45 minutes of...
Working Notes - 05/02/26
A mix this week - thoughts on research that shows getting AI to write unfamiliar code means you learn less, bringing interactivity to MCP, and a clever RAG technique that’s...
Working Notes - 29/01/26
A mix this week - some thoughts on OpenAI’s value-based pricing model pitch (spoiler: I’m a sceptic for most scenarios), testing Gemini Flash 3’s new agentic vision feature, some new...
Working Notes - 23/01/26
A busy week at work but managed to find a little bit of time to get Claude Code to implement a PoC of the Recursive Language Model approach - shared...
Working Notes - 15/01/26
First week in a while with no major model release to cover - instead I’ve been using Claude Code to do non-coding work, looked into Google UCP and what it...
Working Notes - 08/01/26
Back to it after the long Christmas break - I spent most of it with the family and also remodelling my home office. Things slowed down a bit from a...
Renovating my office with AI
My Christmas DIY project this year was to renovate my office. The biggest part of this was to do some Ikea hacking and add some built in cupboards, bookshelves, and...
Working Notes - 18/12/25
Nearly Xmas, so chance this’ll be the last one of the year unless I’m feeling very keen next week! Lots still going on as we close out 2025 - my...
Working Notes - 11/12/25
The model flurry seems to have died down as people close out the year - a few interesting things, including the big report from OpenRouter on which models are being...
Working Notes - 04/12/25
The deluge of model releases continues - Mistral coming out with a EU AI Act friendly release and Deepseek showing the US export restrictions seem to work a bit. Also...
Working Notes - 27/11/25
I’ve been playing around with image generators this week - see my post on Tuesday. Other than that the end of year model flurry has continued! Claude Opus 4.5 Opus...
Experiments with Nano Banana Pro and Mermaid
Since it was released a few days ago, I’ve seen a lot of examples demonstrating that Google’s new Nano Banana Pro image generation model is both fairly decent at outputting...
Working Notes - 20/11/25
Well one of those weeks where too much has happened to properly keep up with it all! Lots of interesting stuff - the new releases will keep me busy for...
Working Notes - 12/11/25
Not too many notes this week - I’ve been in training all week and have had a nasty cold (thanks kids!). More progressive exploration Anthropic is offering better practices for...
Working Notes - 6/11/25
Lot’s of things to cover this week - new models with terrible names and a deep dive into the water use of AI. Does AI use incredible amounts of water?...