The most important thing you can do for a project is leave. Not quit. Not abandon. Leave strategically, the way a sun leaves a solar system — still technically responsible for all the gravity, not lifting a finger. You had the idea. The idea was enough. Now go lie down. There is a long tradition […]
Burn the Context Window
You paid for the tokens. Or your company did, which means you did, which means they did, which means a pension fund somewhere in Oslo did. The meter is running. The GPU is hot. Somewhere a data center is drinking a river. You might as well make something with it. Not something good. Something. Slop. […]
Slop Has a Better Name
We call it slop. That word shows up everywhere now, usually as a dismissal. Slop is the bad output. The extra fingers. The warped face. The sentence that sounds confident but collapses under scrutiny. Slop is treated as a bug, a temporary embarrassment on the way to cleaner systems and better models. But slop is […]
EULOGY FOR THE TWITTER BOTS
Dear friends, followers, lurkers, and doomscrollers, We gather here in the digital afterlife to mourn a peculiar creature, a jumble of code and API keys that once spat 280 characters of chaos, wisdom, and nonsense into our feeds. The Twitter Bots were not human, but it understood us better than most people ever did. They […]
FINE-TUNING PHI-3.5 ON STRUCTURED DATA
The hype machine says you need a trillion parameters and a hyperscale data center to build an “AI agent.” Wrong!!!! Just ask these really smart folks that wrote a recent paper titled Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI. What you really need is a small model that knows how to keep its […]
SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES
Landscapes in Flux: From Glitch to Oil Latent Fragments of a Synthetic Landscape is part of an ongoing investigation into how artificial intelligence, error, and traditional artistic practice intersect to reshape our understanding of landscape. Rather than presenting nature as a stable subject, the work refracts it through layers of computation and painterly translation. What […]