Episode 88 - Build vs Buy
AI is making it cheap to build your own software. Sometimes it beats buying it. But building incurs debt, so you need a plan to keep it running.
Christopher Moravec
Episode 87 - Only the Weather You'll Drive Into
You can trust the answers an AI gives you from data when you set it up to be trustworthy: give it the right data (read-only), give it the right tools, and make its choices obvious.
Episode 86 - Your Map Already Knows
Jaws and I build a small AI agent that answers everyday GIS questions from public City of Portland data.
Claude Clue #41: Let Claude Hand You a Page
Some answers are easier to look at than to read, and Claude Code can publish them as a live page.
Episode 85 - I have a Robot Cat (Kind Of)
Jaws designed a desk robot, I printed it and hot-glued it together, and it immediately drove off the table. Jaws fixed it in about 20 minutes, and then drove it.
Claude Clue #40: Watermarking Described with Crayons
Claude's newest models watermark the text they output, and the trick is doing it without changing the odds of which word Claude picks.
Episode 84 - Are We Cooked?
These tools are amazing, and they're getting better faster than we're ready for. I think we need an independent regulator who can look inside the labs. I know that sounds crazy.
Claude Clue #39: Put Haiku at the Front Desk
Over two weeks in September, my agent made 893 model calls to the cheapest Anthropic model.
Episode 83 - Let's Eat, Grandma
I told an AI never to publish without me, but it was capable of publishing without me. I think you can see where this is going...
Episode 82 - Local Models for the win
Spiel v2 is a native Mac app that can transcribe speech by running a model locally on a MacBook's Neural Engine. It's fast, it's free, and a good reminder that I don't always need a frontier model!