Will It Blend?
Will it Blend was a series of videos promoting a blender brand, in which various unlikely objects were put in a blender to see if they would blend.
Engineering
Drinking from the firehose
I'm Willem van den Ende, partner at QWAN. This is where I write about agentic engineering, wishcraft, naive evals, and whatever prototype I'm building this week.
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Delayed Gratification in AI Summer
I made a prototype and let it sit for over two months. why? attention is all i need - focus can be frustrating, because i can't do the other things, but it is also what lets me enjoy holidays and get good results out of my work.
Engineering
Developing with open weights models only, three months in
It is a bit over three months ago that my linkedin post about cancelling my Claude Max subscription went viral. Time for an update. The first six weeks were uneventful, then I started missing some things from before, and yesterday I closed the loop.
Engineering
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Scheduled Publishing & Author Dashboard
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v0.1.0 Released
Initial release of Firehose
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