protodemo workshop

A small wall of half-built things.

Prototypes, variants, and ideas I'm testing in the open. Look around — tell me what works.

A series, in four parts

Redaction ladder, Depth, Voice and Writing ask one question between them: how small can a model get before it stops being useful? Pick a size, watch the quality move, decide for yourself where the floor is.

All four run in your browser, so what you paste, drop or type stays on your machine. There is no server here to send it to.

On the wall right now
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Return on capital

A company is worth what its investments earn above what they cost. Dial the returns and the reinvestment over the years and watch the value move.

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Is this worth your Saturday?

A judgment that costs almost nothing can be asked nine times instead of once. Wire the questions into a tree, drag the thresholds, and watch 3,855 real events fall through it.

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Your idea?

Got one I should try? Send it.

Sparks are notes. Cooking ones are being built in the open: they work, mostly, and some are rough. Polished ones are finished, with their limits written down. Showing the unfinished ones is the point: I would rather say so and hear what breaks than wait until something is perfect and quietly never ship it.

Who is talking

The ideas on this wall are mine, and so is the steering: what question a tile asks, what gets tried, what gets cut, and what stays up. I test each one, say what is wrong with it, and send it back, usually more than once. I do not write the code. Claude, Anthropic's model, writes the code and the first draft of the words, and runs the checks the pages describe. I read the results and decide. When a page says “I”, that is my decision, in words we arrived at together. Where a page reports a test, Claude ran it and I read it.

That is also part of what this wall is for. Besides the tiles, it is a record of a way of working: one person with ideas and an agent that writes the code, and what the two can build together. Judge the tiles by whether they work, and judge the partnership by the tiles.