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2025

Reflecting on AI

What building small hardware taught me about working with very large models.

Reflecting on AI

I build small, deliberate objects, and I increasingly do it with the help of enormous statistical ones. That contrast has been on my mind all year — this is an attempt to write it down.

Notes and prompts

Tools that push back

Good tools have opinions. The interesting question is not whether AI writes code or copy, but what kind of taste survives the collaboration. Some provisional answers, subject to revision.

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Working session
Back to the bench

Thanks for reading

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Second March is a small studio for hardware, software and curious detours — these stories are its notebook. Poke around the projects, say hello, or see what I’m tinkering with next.