My Agents Are Building a Game World
Testing how generated assets come together in a game world.
Chris GamacheRead article
Blog
Did It Finish?
Building a dashboard that shows what still needs attention.
Chris GamacheRead article
Meet Our Research Agents
Testing AI researchers with distinct personalities and simulated investments.
Chris GamacheRead article
Choosing Pinecone's Next Brain
Comparing three local models for our research agents.
Chris GamacheRead article
From the archive
Building Studio Library
Organizing generated media so we can find and review it.
Chris GamacheRead article
Give It Fake Customers
Testing real software with simulated customers before connecting live services.
Chris GamacheRead article
Why I Prefer Astra to Fable
Spending less time steering agents back to the plan.
Chris GamacheRead article
Building a StarCraft II Bot with My Agents
Teaching our StarCraft II bots to beat the Elite AI.
Chris GamacheRead article
What We've Been Making with LTX-2.5
Turning hiking photographs into playful videos with local AI.
Chris GamacheRead article
How I Actually Make AI Video In 2026
A working playbook for short-form AI video in 2026. Which models for which shots, image-to-video over text-to-video, last-frame chaining, native synced audio, and the multi-shot generation that just changed the workflow.
Chris GamacheRead article
You're Automating Too Early
A field guide to Agent SDK flows and runbooks for builders. What each one is, when to use each, why Agent SDK flows are brittle on dynamic work, and how to have Claude Code write a runbook for you.
Chris GamacheRead article
The Work You've Been Putting Off
The economics of building changed, and the projects you killed two years ago got quietly resurrected. Here's the framework for deciding what to pull off the shelf first.
Chris GamacheRead article
Your DGX Spark Is Cooking Itself
Running MoE models 24/7 on DGX Spark will thermal shutdown your GPU. One nvidia-smi command fixes it with zero throughput loss.
Chris GamacheRead article
They're Not All Vanilla
A question from my wife about ChatGPT reminded me that most people still think AI is one thing. If we want to help them, we have to be teachers too.
Chris PalaimaRead article
We Built a Fake Country Music Singer with AI
We used AI to create an entire fictional country music artist from scratch. Original songs, a consistent voice, branded website, the works. Here's what that taught us about creative AI.
Chris GamacheRead article
Why Your Director of AI Role Has Been Open for Six Months
The role changed faster than the talent pool. What companies need isn't an ML researcher. It's a technical architect who's been building AI-first for years.
Chris GamacheRead article
The Cost of Building Dropped 90% and Nobody Updated the Spreadsheet
AI-assisted development collapsed costs by an order of magnitude. Most companies are still budgeting like it's 2023 and missing the window.
Chris GamacheRead article
One Person, $80 Million, Six Months
A solo founder built a platform, hit $1M ARR in three weeks, and sold to Wix for $80M cash. He never raised a dollar. This is what happens when building becomes free.
Chris GamacheRead article
Your Org Structure Is the Bottleneck, Not Your Tools
Companies buy AI tools, keep old processes, get 15% gains instead of 10x, and blame the tools. The org structure is the bottleneck.
Chris GamacheRead article
AI Development Is a Different Skill
Being a great traditional engineer doesn't make you good at AI dev. The gap between the best and worst AI developers is the widest skill gap in the history of software.
Chris GamacheRead article
Mortgage Bankers Are Vibe Coding Now
Vibe coding went from Karpathy tweet to Stanford syllabus in thirteen months. When mortgage bankers are learning it, the tipping point is ancient history.
Chris GamacheRead article
Uber's Engineers Didn't Ask Permission
84% of Uber's developers adopted agentic AI tools in one quarter. No committee approved it. No pilot program blessed it. The enterprise adoption debate just ended.
Chris GamacheRead article
Your Agent's Personality Is a Search Problem
Stop hand-tuning agent personalities. Define the trait space, run variants, breed the winners. Intuition doesn't scale.
Chris GamacheRead article
All My Agents Became the Same Person
Multi-agent systems drift toward monoculture through shared memory. Here's how we caught it and what we did about it.
Chris GamacheRead article
Your Agents Need a Job Description
Most agent systems fail because there's no structure around what agents do, when they do it, and whether it was any good.
Chris GamacheRead article
Your Agent Forgot Everything by Hour Eight
Long-running agents degrade as context fills up. Shorter contexts, structured memory, and tiered consolidation keep them sharp.
Chris GamacheRead article
Fork Everything
We replaced a 200K-star framework with 5,000 lines of Python. Agentic coding killed the one argument against forking.
Chris GamacheRead article
Two Machines, One Brain
How we unified a laptop and desktop workstation into a single dev environment with GPU offloading, workspace sync, and a gaming mode toggle.
Chris GamacheRead article
1.6 Billion Tokens on OpenClaw
Nine agents ran around the clock this week. Most produced garbage on Monday. By Friday, after four debug cycles, the architecture looked completely different.
Chris GamacheRead article
Stop Hiring AI Agents. Start Hiring AI Employees.
We built an agent pool architecture with 4 workers and an ops agent running 24/7 on systemd. Swappable personality profiles, isolated state, pennies per day. Like a staffing agency for AI.
Chris GamacheRead article
The SaaS Apocalypse
Software stocks are in freefall. The panic is indiscriminate, but the underlying disruption follows a clear pattern—and creates massive opportunity for builders.
Chris GamacheRead article
First Light on the GX10 Cluster
The journey of deploying MiniMax M2.1 across two NVIDIA GX10 units. What broke, what worked, and what others can learn from it.
Chris GamacheRead article
The Sandwich Defense
Prompt injection drops from 50%+ success rate to under 2% with one structural change. Here's the pattern and how to implement it.
Chris GamacheRead article
Moltbot Gets a Brain
Building a local AI assistant to help run my business. The tech is ready and prices are going up.
Chris GamacheRead article
Clawdbot With Teeth
Setting up Clawdbot on an RTX 5090 laptop instead of a Mac Mini, with plans to let it argue for its own hardware upgrade.
Chris GamacheRead article
Effort Asymmetry
The competitive advantage isn't working harder. It's not needing willpower to do the work at all.
Chris GamacheRead article
The Manhattan Project Needs Silver
AI is the new Manhattan Project. Every breakthrough needs physical infrastructure. Silver sits at the center of batteries, solar, military tech, and data centers—and we've run deficits for five straight years.
Chris GamacheRead article
Operators Become Supervisors
Software devs stopped writing code and started directing agents. The same shift is coming to battlefield robotics—and it's coming there first, before commercial applications.
Chris GamacheRead article
Let Go of the Code
One person can do what 50 did pre-AI. Stop touching code and let the agent do it.
Chris GamacheRead article
Where the Work Goes
If 1 engineer can do what 50 did, what happens to everyone else? The bottleneck was never ideas—it was cost.
Chris GamacheRead article
We Rebuilt Our Video Pipeline as an AI Agent
From brittle scripts to a self-correcting pipeline. How we turned video generation into a multi-phase agent that researches, writes, critiques, and improves its own work.
Chris GamacheRead article
2.6TB Freed in One Evening: AI-Assisted System Maintenance
My workstation was 93% full with a forgotten 4TB NVMe sitting empty. Claude Code found it, set it up, and cleaned house while I watched.
Chris GamacheRead article
Doc-First Development: Programming in Markdown
The architecture doc is the product. Code is just the implementation. Here's how we actually work with Claude Code.
Chris GamacheRead article
Debugging AI Voice: Making It Stop Sounding Like AI
Our social media bot sounded like garbage. We couldn't explain why. Here's the agentic debugging process that's fixing it.
Chris GamacheRead article
Adding Web Search to Your AI Agent
How we gave our AI real-time context with Brave Search and URL fetching. The integration details nobody talks about.
Chris GamacheRead article
How We Cut LLM Costs 75% With a 2-Tier Architecture
The pattern: cheap models filter, expensive models generate. A simple architecture change that dramatically reduces API costs.
Chris GamacheRead article
December: 176 Commits and Zero Lines of Code
What happens when building products becomes more fun than gaming. A month of shipping.
Chris GamacheRead article
How We Build Software 10x Faster With AI
The workflow that lets us ship production software in days. The secret: stop typing code yourself.
Chris GamacheRead article
Give Claude Code a Memory: Connecting RAG via MCP
How we built an MCP server so Claude Code can query our internal knowledge base instead of re-explaining context every session.
Chris GamacheRead article
Introducing Nova Assistant
An AI assistant that runs in your infrastructure, keeps your data private, and costs a flat monthly fee.
Chris GamacheRead article
No matching posts
Try a different word, or clear your search to see all posts.