Notes on tech, building, and Vermont.
Honest write-ups of what I'm building and learning — where automation actually helps, what shipping software is really like, and the occasional dispatch from a small town.
Trying to Change a Water Filter with Help From A Frontier Model
Entry xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx in why AGI is far off
mrkiouak@gmail.com · 2026-06-14
Governor Scott, the Legislature, Property Taxes & The Avoided Fix
Scott and the Legislature Keep Patching Property Taxes. They Could Fix Them Instead.
2026-05-30
U-32 Closed Door Decisions & Wider State Education Failures
Why are we spending so much and still failing at the basics?
2026-05-18
Where State of the Art Fails
Automating data extraction and analysis of PDFs in 2026: Pitfalls & Limitations
2026-05-15
The Next Wave of Automation: Text Summarization & Wordsmithing
A small side project for local government and forecasting based on extrapolating AI capabilities.
2026-01-15
Locations, patterns for AI-assisted human creativity & future blog posts
Ki Storygen New Feature & Future Blog Posts
2025-07-22
My Go-To Tech Stack for Web Apps
My Go-To Tech Stack for Web Apps (including the "vibe coded" variety)
2025-06-23
Chaining for consistency: Prompt -> Structured Data -> Image -> Video
In search for multimodal cross invocation character continuity
2025-06-17
Anecdote: The benefits of applying structured expertise
Bringing domain expertise & patience to bear
2025-06-16
Thoughts on "What is GenAI good for?"
A little bit of history & an example from today
2025-06-02
Generative AI: A New Tool, Same As The Old Tool
Or how GenAI is same "stuff", different day
2025-05-24
Ki StoryGen Experiment
'Little Golden Books' Interactive GenAI Experience
2025-05-22
Problems in GenerativeAI: Continuity
The Theseus' Ship Problem with AI
2025-05-19
Lazy Post
But point-in-time LLM code writing example
2025-05-12
"Thinking Models" & "Coding"
A not terribly interesting, but recorded for posterity, double use of GenAI
2025-05-05
The Voice inside the Computer
Generative AI & the vulnerable is a bad mix
2025-05-05
The Important Thing in 2025
Where is all the money going?
2025-04-30
Introduction (2025)
Who I am & what I want to communicate
2025-04-21New posts, now and then.
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