Engineering Blog

I don't like what I now call Moralistic Programming. 'You are not a good developer if <you don't use my pet favourite practice>'. I see some of that resurfacing in discussions around coding agents. I value Situational Awareness over best practices and fingerpointing..

Next annoying variation in my blog writing workflow is adding images to a post. I wanted to add drag and drop. I let a coding agent generate something that almost worked, and then did the finishing touches by hand, simplifying the UX and code as I went.

Brian Marick once distributed stickers with 'An example would be handy right about now'. This is also handy in cases where writing a test is not directly obvious

QWEN 3.6 models are multi modal, but getting that to work requires an additional file and configuration in llama.cpp and enabling images in the Pi.dev models configuration.

Checking out a repository on a fresh machine often involves some fiddling around. An init scripts costs only one prompt and gets you going now, and months later.

In which the writer reflects on believing AI is conscious

Yesterday my LinkedIn post about cancelling my Claude Code Max plan went viral. People asked me about my local LLM setup. A quick post about what I am using today

Setting up Pi on a VPS is easier than I thought. Open source with a great unboxing experience. Follow along and enjoy!

The last ten days have seen a phase shift in quality and speed of open weight models and inference. I am still adjusting.

A brief experiment in working in short cycles with a coding agent. Human very much in the loop.