One year from doubting that AI assistants were any use to me and worrying about what they cost in energy, to using one every working day, told in order from my own record, with the doubts that stayed. [read]
2026-10-11 / AI / ai, machine-learning, learning, craft
What runs on the home workstation, what is planned, and the one rule that decides what goes on it. [read]
2026-10-11 / AI / ai, local-models, workstation
Retrieval-augmented chat over a folder of PDFs on the local machine, what it is good for, what it is not, and the reading rule that makes it safe to use. [read]
2026-10-11 / AI / ai, retrieval, literature
I read the US Department of Energy policy on generative AI to write a short post about it, and this is what it says about the user, where my own summary was wider than the text, and why I think others will adopt it. [read]
2026-02-15 / AI / series Tested on real work / ai, policy, verification
I gave Claude a long technical document of my own and it reported a number I still have to check, and later I caught things missing from what it put together from the same material. [read]
2025-11-06 / AI / series Tested on real work / ai, long-documents, verification