Practical AI for Real People
Before 3d printers got awesome I used to built my own or customize the heck out of my Ender 3, as a result I have a bunch of old parts sitting around so last weekend I decided to put it to use to act as a household AI assistant. It has one real job: press the knob, ask out loud, read the answer. . Code, case, and wiring are all here: github.com/drkpxl/chatbox The star of the show The display is a…
Refreshing video from Mario Zechner (Pi creator) on building deterministic code generation tools in a market flooded with unreliable AI-generated "slop".
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, a more agentic and cost-efficient model that approaches Opus 4.8's performance on many tasks, shows improved safety metrics over its predecessor Sonnet 4.6, and is now available across all Claude plans and the API with introductory pricing through August 31, 2026.
A security researcher claims to have found hidden Unicode markers in Claude Code that subtly alter the date string in its system prompt based on the API base URL's hostname and system timezone—apparently to flag custom gateways, proxies, or resellers (especially Chinese AI-related domains)—raising privacy and transparency concerns about undisclosed steganographic fingerprinting in a widely-trusted…
Anthropic has received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
A hands-on review of Qwen 3.6 27B, a dense local model that punches above its weight for development work, with practical setup instructions for running it via llama.cpp and benchmarks comparing it to frontier models.
What It Gives Your Agent Four read-only tools: get_air_quality — current AQI and category for a zip, city, or lat/lon check_air_quality_threshold — boolean: is AQI above a given number right now? find_nearby_stations — nearby AirNow reporting stations list_aqi_categories — the AQI scale so the agent understands what the numbers mean Connect it in two lines: mcp_servers: tinyair: url:…
Up until recently, I was a HUGE Claude user, bouncing between Max and Max 20 depending on the project and the month. I mostly saw AI as a way to write deterministic code. I watched OpenClaw show up, get hacked, then evolve, and I said, "I don't need that." Between Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude Code, all my non-coding "life assistant" needs were covered. Then I got curious about Hermes — it seemed…
Sometimes my Hermes over reasons on simple tasks but I don't want to change it globally. Here is a quick cheat sheet for how to change it during a session. /reasoning # Show current effort level and display state /reasoning high # Set reasoning effort to high /reasoning none # Disable reasoning /reasoning show # Show model thinking above each response /reasoning hide # Hide model thinking
Figma announced an AI design agent that lives right inside the canvas — generating, editing, and iterating on designs alongside you instead of in a separate chat window. It's a good example of the pattern we keep seeing: agents showing up inside the tools people already use, rather than as standalone chatbots. Read the announcement on Figma's blog ↗
Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5 , and if you've been following the whispers about "Mythos," this is the moment. For the uninitiated: Mythos is Anthropic's powerhouse architecture—a class of model designed for extreme technical proficiency, specifically in areas like vulnerability discovery and complex software engineering. The problem? A model that can find every bug in a system can also be…
Home Assistant makes it easy to add devices and surprisingly tedious to remove a lot of them at once — especially stale MQTT sensors. Here's the approach I use to delete them in bulk. The idea Rather than deleting devices one by one, you herd everything you want gone into a single Area , then run a short script in your browser's console that deletes everything in that Area. Steps Create a staging…