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Trying to Change a Water Filter with Help From A Frontier Model

AI

Trying to Change a Water Filter with Help From A Frontier Model

Entry xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx in why AGI is far off

mrkiouak@gmail.com · 2026-06-14

Governor Scott, the Legislature, Property Taxes & The Avoided Fix

Economics & Civics

Governor Scott, the Legislature, Property Taxes & The Avoided Fix

Scott and the Legislature Keep Patching Property Taxes. They Could Fix Them Instead.

2026-05-30

U-32 Closed Door Decisions & Wider State Education Failures

Economics & Civics

U-32 Closed Door Decisions & Wider State Education Failures

Why are we spending so much and still failing at the basics?

2026-05-18

Where State of the Art Fails

GenAI

Where State of the Art Fails

Automating data extraction and analysis of PDFs in 2026: Pitfalls & Limitations

2026-05-15

The Next Wave of Automation: Text Summarization & Wordsmithing

Economics & Civics

The Next Wave of Automation: Text Summarization & Wordsmithing

A small side project for local government and forecasting based on extrapolating AI capabilities.

2026-01-15

Locations, patterns for AI-assisted human creativity & future blog posts

Creativity & AI

Locations, patterns for AI-assisted human creativity & future blog posts

Ki Storygen New Feature & Future Blog Posts

2025-07-22

My Go-To Tech Stack for Web Apps

Tech

My Go-To Tech Stack for Web Apps

My Go-To Tech Stack for Web Apps (including the "vibe coded" variety)

2025-06-23

Chaining for consistency: Prompt -> Structured Data -> Image -> Video

GenAi

Chaining for consistency: Prompt -> Structured Data -> Image -> Video

In search for multimodal cross invocation character continuity

2025-06-17

Anecdote: The benefits of applying structured expertise

GenAI

Anecdote: The benefits of applying structured expertise

Bringing domain expertise & patience to bear

2025-06-16

Thoughts on "What is GenAI good for?"

GenAI

Thoughts on "What is GenAI good for?"

A little bit of history & an example from today

2025-06-02

Generative AI: A New Tool, Same As The Old Tool

GenAI

Generative AI: A New Tool, Same As The Old Tool

Or how GenAI is same "stuff", different day

2025-05-24

Ki StoryGen Experiment

GenAI

Ki StoryGen Experiment

'Little Golden Books' Interactive GenAI Experience

2025-05-22

Problems in GenerativeAI: Continuity

GenAI

Problems in GenerativeAI: Continuity

The Theseus' Ship Problem with AI

2025-05-19

Lazy Post

Uncategorized

Lazy Post

But point-in-time LLM code writing example

2025-05-12

"Thinking Models" & "Coding"

GenAI

"Thinking Models" & "Coding"

A not terribly interesting, but recorded for posterity, double use of GenAI

2025-05-05

The Voice inside the Computer

GenAI

The Voice inside the Computer

Generative AI & the vulnerable is a bad mix

2025-05-05

The Important Thing in 2025

Economics & Civics

The Important Thing in 2025

Where is all the money going?

2025-04-30

Introduction (2025)

Uncategorized

Introduction (2025)

Who I am & what I want to communicate

2025-04-21