One Iteration of Right, Part II: The Rebuild
An independent model review found the inversion in a lighting-editor prototype, then prior art helped rebuild it.
Florian Horner Blog
Notes on AI-native engineering, agent orchestration, operating rules, and home automation.
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Three Iterations of Wrong, Part I: The Prototype
Three fast AI prototypes for a visual Lightener editor kept solving the spec while missing the product.
Right bug, wrong fix: How my own AI report made me nuke 6 live dashboards at 3 a.m.
An AI deep-research tool diagnosed my Home Assistant performance problems. One claim in five was true, and fixing the true one took down six dashboards at 3 a.m. A full dissection with logs.
The Room Is Part of the Editor
A design note on Lightener Studio: when curve editing controls real lights during preview, the room becomes part of the interface.
184 commits last month. I didn't write any of them.
In a recent three-week window, I shipped 184 commits across six active projects , with roughly 161,000 lines changed across the diffs. Line count is a bad productivity metric; I cite it only because it shows the volume at which orchestration problems become visible. The git log says I authored them. I did not hand-write the code in those commits. Every line came out of Codex, Claude Code, or a…
Moment-of-Magic Interface
Moment-of-Magic Interfaces You're driving. The radio is on. Most stations are noise. Then one of them plays the right song at the right tempo for what's outside the windshield, and the host says something that lands, and for thirty seconds you forget you're driving. That's the moment. You're on a sales call. Going badly. The prospect just asked the question you don't have an answer for. A note…