Two worlds,
one curiosity.
By day I build better public services; by night I lose myself in a glass of wine. In between, I put AI to work hands-on, so I stay ahead and can bring others along. What I find beneath the surface, I share here.
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Innovation, AI & wine
Let the model tear your own tasting note apart
Not testing the model, testing yourself. You write down blind what you taste, and then it gets to attack every term you used.
I can't try Claude Duet yet, so I'm building my own
Anthropic's Claude Duet is an agent that comes to you with work. It's US-only and waitlisted. What Duet actually is, and how I'm rebuilding it with sub-agents in the meantime.
How I use AI: a trip dossier that cites its own sources
Researching twenty estates costs an evening. The model does it in ten minutes, and the opening hours that come out are partly invented by the source, not by the model.
A tasting night that writes itself up
Six bottles, eight people, and by the end nobody remembers what was said about the third. A recording fixes that, provided you ask permission first.
What AI code costs you after it is written
The speed gain from AI-written code is measured and real. The bill sits in the same datasets, a few steps further along, at reading and reviewing.
Claude Code's desktop app is now built for running sessions in parallel
Anthropic reworked the Claude Code desktop app for people who keep many sessions going at once. What's new, what I'd already scripted around, and what the app still can't see.
How I use AI: a price watcher that asks permission first
My script correctly refused one forbidden page and happily fetched another. The difference was two characters my robots parser didn't know.
The wine list in a restaurant, in four minutes
Four minutes, eighty names on a list, and a table waiting. The prompt that works there is not the one you use at home.
Self-evolving SaaS builds half a factory
Software that rewrites itself for each customer is the trend of 2026. I went looking for the mechanism that carries a feature from one customer back into the shared product.
Sparks
Short notes, tips & loose thoughtsTested a new local image generator. Runs fully offline. The hero above came out of it.
Tasted blind: a grower champagne beat two big houses. Notes to follow.
EUDI Wallet pilot live in NL. First take: UX decides whether the trust lands.
Tip: keep your best prompts as snippets, not in your head. Saves time daily.
Golden hour lasted eleven minutes yesterday. Exactly enough for three bottles.
Note to self: a method is a tool, not an excuse to stop thinking.