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She Dreamed a Talking Bust of Paul Dirac. I Built the Talking Part.

My girlfriend went to a Greek festival, saw a table of miniature busts — Aristotle and company — and then dreamed that I had made one of Paul Dirac that you could talk to. I had most of the pieces already. The part I did not have is the one that makes it a bust instead of an app: it listens.

10 min read
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I Started Training a Fruit Fly to Build Websites

A fruit fly's learning circuit — 2,045 measured Kenyon cells, a feedback loop and 17,985 measured connections, lifted out of a published connectome — has been taught to prefer one kind of web page over another, and is now art-directing a storefront. The joke only works if the fly is real. It is.

10 min read
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The Deadline That Wasn't: A Correction About Fable

Last week I published a send-off for Fable 5 the day before it was supposed to leave my subscription. It didn't leave. Here's what the usage endpoint actually reports, what I got wrong, and why Claude Opus 5 shipping five days later made the whole panic moot anyway.

6 min read
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Written by Fable, While I Still Can

Fable 5 leaves subscription plans on July 19. Before it goes, Fable and I wrote this together — a send-off covering the recommend-and-filter method, the LARA brain, the muse that hunts for connections, the security watchers, and everything else we built as a team.

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Vibe Coding Is a Great Start—But Discipline Is How You Level Up

As a self-taught developer turned engineer and architect, I support vibe coding as an on-ramp. But to grow beyond prompts and prototypes, new developers need strict habits: version control, TDD, and agile workflows—even when building solo with AI.

4 min read
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Claude Opus 4.5 Hits 100% on SvelteBench: My AI Coding Setup for 2025

After months of using Claude Sonnet 4.5 with GitHub Copilot Pro+, I've switched to Opus 4.5 which just achieved a perfect 100% score on SvelteBench. Here's my recommended setup for SvelteKit developers and how I'm building an AI-powered Agile assistant called Apollo.

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Quantum Computing Meets AI: The Next Frontier of Computational Intelligence

Exploring how quantum computing is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence, from quantum machine learning algorithms to solving optimization problems that classical computers can't touch. Dive into the intersection of two transformative technologies and what it means for the future of AI.

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Getting Back into Coding: Navigating the AI Revolution in 2025

After a brief hiatus, I'm diving back into coding and discovering how much the AI landscape has evolved. From LLMs and AI agents to MCP servers and GitHub Actions orchestration, here's what I've learned about the current state of AI development tools.

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