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6 — The Landingham
I’m shellshocked by the barrage of new developments in AI. This past week it was Fable 5 and then Fable 5 being silently refused to academic researches, and then the U.S. government instructing Anthropic to withdraw Fable 5 from public release. And that’s just the non-technical part of the past week’s AI news. My only…
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4 — A Stream of Notes, Rationalized
Last week I said it was time to figure out what kinds of automated tasks it actually made sense to have an AI agent do for you. Thinking about this kind of made my path within the newsletter bifurcate and I think splitting my attention up makes sense, but we’ll see. On the one hand,…
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3 — Prompting for Routes
Last week I talked about using a Node.js script to send a prompt to a local model by way of Ollama. The logical next step is to push this a little further with further routing rules and experimentation. But first I’d like to talk through the architecture for the router. The Triage Piece, Deferred In…
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2 — Of Local Models and Ollama
Hey, I’m Robert. I’m a developer, a recovering editorial director, and guy figuring out how to build a chief of staff to run all sorts of aspects of his life, often (but not always) using AI. If you’re new here, welcome! What’s inside OpenClaw not necessarily required · Running local models with Ollama · Models…
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5 — How to Remember
The Tin Man was wrong. He needed a memory to go along with his brain. Researchers in the AI space are giving a lot of attention these days to memory and managing memory. Let’s say you want a system that helps you keep track of ideas you’ve and decisions you’ve made while working on a…
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1 — Projects and Smoke
May 14, 2026 I’ve got some serious misgivings about AI, think climate change is going to be worse than even the scientists expect, and am not ready to rule out nuclear Armageddon either. At the same time, though, I’m in my early sixties and what I don’t do in the next decade or two isn’t…
