personal projects

Why Do Personal Projects Die When Nobody Is Pushing?

A long project needs more than an initial burst of motivation; it needs a small loop that keeps producing evidence and feedback.

AI can solve the problems now. Is a mistake notebook still worth keeping?

AI has made getting it right the first time cheap. I keep an add-only notebook of mistakes for it, and this morning I still fell into a hole that was written down in it.

A Smarter Model Still Can't Recover a Deleted Image

I hooked a vision model up to my personal knowledge base expecting it to search inside article screenshots too, and the test came back with zero images. The model wasn't the problem; the pipeline that turns a webpage into "clean text" had already stripped the pictures out before the model ever saw them. The ceiling on an AI tool's capability is often set upstream, where you're not looking.