Personal website and blog by Werner Robitza, covering video quality, software, research, and notes.
Agent-based coding tools have reached the point where I can hand them a substantial piece of work and expect useful results. Claude Code and Codex, paired with the newest models, can investigate a codebase, implement a feature, run tests, and keep going for far longer than I would have expected even a year ago.
The more AI is being used to generate text, the more we are subjected to having to read it. Writing this in the middle of 2026, over the past few months, I have become wary of that.
Standardization is the art of getting a room full of people (with competing interests) to agree. Everyone has different viewpoints, of course. Some people also have different motivations. Perhaps they are just hungry and want to get home; others have primarily commercial interests.
I’m sorry for misleading you with the title. It’s more than one thing that annoys me.
Image from: thesecatsdonotexist.com I have worked both as a software developer and video engineer for a long time. But I’ve always had an obsession with AI, and in particular, what I would call “AI weirdness”. The cats above are no exception. Over the last five years, AI went from something I would sometimes read about to something that I use every single day. I wanted to write down the moments…
I often let Claude Code drive interactive terminal sessions on my remote servers — SSH shells, Rails consoles, psql, the occasional debugger. I do this via terminalcp, but there is an annoyance: to read the output of a command, the agent needs to send the command, then sleep for some arbitrary number of seconds, and then grab whatever appeared on screen.
Academic reviewing used to be more fun. (As fun as it can be, of course.)
A weird thing happened to me recently. I was playing around with OpenClaw, and, despite their recommendations, I set up WhatsApp using my own number. When I texted myself for testing purposes, my name showed as “John Doe” (well, not literally, but I won’t name that person here), not as me. That was quite confusing. And while I found the original issue, which was Hubspot having stored that John…
I have a big heavy cargo bike with an Enviolo hub in the back. Some time ago it got a flat, and because I’d never worked on that type of hub before, I asked ChatGPT for advice on how to change the tube. You know, just out of curiosity about what it actually knows.
Mendeley Desktop for macOS has been defunct for a while, but I still had my entire paper library in it. I wanted to move to BibDesk, an open-source bibliography manager for macOS that stores everything in plain .bib files. The catch: I needed to keep my Mendeley folder structure and link the PDFs properly.