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.
Latest stories
Innovation, AI & wine
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.
A pairing matrix that names no bottle at all
Most wine-with-food advice names bottles your shop doesn't stock. This page names none, which is what makes it usable.
Claude Code now has mods, and my own machine has no doorman
The Function Hooks proposal shipped four weeks later as mods. Powerful, but the protective mod only loads for organizations. What that means if you work alone.
Four things a model is never going to taste
Cork taint, reduction, temperature, and the case that differs from the last one. None of the four lives in language, which is why no language model reaches them.
I pasted the skill instead of installing it
Two engineers published the contents of their agent folders. The useful part turned out to be the shape of the files, not the files themselves.
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.