#artificial-intelligence
28 posts
2026 - October
5 posts2026 - September
6 posts- The Mystery of LUA Vision's Genesys PI - A Brazilian Frontier Model??
- Watch Out! A Pseudo-TechCrunch Tried to Scam Me! And Calendly Is SHIT
- New AI-Focused Language Just Released: Bend 2
- AI Unmasked the Climate Change Hysteria
- Why Things Like TypeSafe AI Don't Interest Me
- You're an Idiot if You Believe the Misleading Ads from OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA. Here's Why
2026 - August
1 post2026 - July
2 posts2026 - May
1 post2026 - April
1 post2026 - March
4 posts2026 - February
6 posts- RANT: Did Akita Bend Over for AI??
- Vibe Code: I Built a Smart Image Indexer with AI in 2 Days | Frank Sherlock
- From Zero to Post-Production in 1 Week - How to Use AI on Real Projects | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
- RANT: Did AI Kill Programmers?
- Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 2
- Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 1
2025 - June
1 post2025 - April
1 post2026 - October
5 postsI Self-Published My Own Book/e-book: Competent Enough
I published my book about AI, for free, in EPUB and PDF: the blog's 131 posts from 2026, almost half a million words, reorganized into 20 chapters, 6 appendices, a glossary and almost 300 references. This text is the technical backstage: the inventory with a hash per post, the contract every agent read before writing, the parallel drafts, the invisible per-paragraph marker that ties the book to the blog, the checker that fails a chapter with an error, what the fact-check caught wrong in my own posts, and the Quarto, Typst and Pandoc pipeline that generates everything. It's a preview: open an issue if you find a mistake.
AI Reverse Engineering: Is Adobe Dead?
In the same week, a dev dropped seven Adobe clones built with Claude, REA passed 100K stars promising to 'reverse engineer anything', and retro gaming got a new port every day. The viral conclusion: no binary is sacred, Adobe is dead, programmers are dead. I explain what each of these things actually does: PhotoCraft is an alpha with 800 open issues, REA is a toolbox that requires the binary and Ghidra, and retro moves fast because an 8 MB ROM turns into 135K lines of C. Rewriting Bun cost US$ 165K with the author and 64 agents; Photoshop doesn't even have an open binary in the parts that matter. Reverse engineering got easier. Magic still doesn't exist.
LLMs + Agents = competent enough
A synthesis of what I've been measuring and writing: LLMs converged. The transformer architecture got near the ceiling, the parameter war is over, and the leap everyone felt in 2025 and 2026 came from the agentic harness (tool calling, prompt caching, long sessions), not from a base intelligence orders of magnitude larger. I retell the timeline from 2019 onward with sources, explain why the agent allows a less dense model, and why that's already competent enough to automate real software engineering.
Which Jev-like AI Decision/Classifier Model Is Best?
I ran my own decision-model benchmark: Jev, Clef, OpenAI Decisions and Microsoft Decision-1 in the cloud, plus eighteen open configurations (Perplexity Decider 27B, Decision 3.0 and Edge, Clef-flash, Kev, Jebadiah, Mapika, Eikos, Laya, Julia, GLiNER, Simple-Jev) on my Strix Halo, across more than 22 thousand classifications with cases in English and Portuguese. The top now has two open-weights models: Perplexity and Decision 3.0 tied at 99.4%, with identical labels on the 1,024 classifications and 100% in Portuguese. Microsoft Decision-1 tied Jev at 97.6% while being the cheapest hosted one. Full table, cost in support emails, gotchas, and where the data converges.
Understanding the Jev Hype: What Is It For?
Jev is a hosted classifier, and the shock of '193x faster' only exists because so many people use a chat LLM as an expensive classifier. I publish Paulo Câmara's essay (LUA Vision) with his charts, explain what a classifier is and why it's the first thing a computer scientist reaches for, compare the open alternatives Clef and Laya, show the public Decision Index ranking, and close with how to think about this kind of tool in your own project.
2026 - September
6 postsThe Mystery of LUA Vision's Genesys PI - A Brazilian Frontier Model??
After the first Genesys PI test, LUA Vision fixed bugs in the API and I ran everything again: cost dropped 85%, House climbed to 95.5 and Enterprise stayed flat. I also ran a black-box forensic analysis to answer whether the model is a rebadged Qwen, a disguised gpt-oss or an API proxy. I separate what is checked from what is still only their word.
Watch Out! A Pseudo-TechCrunch Tried to Scam Me! And Calendly Is SHIT
An account posing as a TechCrunch journalist DMed me today asking for a meeting, with a Calendly link that redirects to an X OAuth authorization screen. It's the same scam that already caught José Valim, Elixir's creator. I document the scam step by step, with technical proof.
New AI-Focused Language Just Released: Bend 2
Bend 2, from Brazilian researcher Victor Taelin, arrived promising C speed, GPU parallelism, and formal proofs that block AI mistakes. I tested it by porting two of my Rust projects right at launch. Plenty of potential; stdlib and ecosystem are still toys.
AI Unmasked the Climate Change Hysteria
AI's race for energy buried the climate agenda: big techs restarting nuclear plants, Germany admitting the mistake, datacenters already consuming double the global EV fleet. With Bjorn Lomborg's numbers, the climate apocalypse as a misallocation of trillions.
Why Things Like TypeSafe AI Don't Interest Me
A handful of people showed up in the comments asking 'have you tried TypeSafe?'. I use that as a hook to lay out my rule about new AI tools, actually investigate the case, and explain why I don't waste time optimizing token spend.
You're an Idiot if You Believe the Misleading Ads from OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA. Here's Why
Nvidia and OpenAI declared that AGI has arrived, OpenAI brute-forced a Millennium Problem and threatened a mathematician's career, and an Anthropic employee quit crying Skynet. I take the propaganda apart.
2026 - August
1 postHot Take: Harness, Loop Engineering, Graph Engineering Are Bullshit
I posted that Harness Engineering, Loop Engineering, and Graph Engineering are bullshit to sell consulting hours and courses. Here's my receipt: 30+ public repos, an AI marathon, and a whole benchmark — none of it using any of those 'disciplines'.
2026 - July
2 postsUsing AI to Solve My Little Day-to-Day Problems
A roundup of my small open source projects: a desk clock with widgets, manga readers, decent email, typing practice, YouTube karaoke, ComfyUI in Docker and more. All born from real little problems in my day-to-day.
Frank GO: Playing Go with AI
I built Frank GO as a Sabaki fork with KataGo, bringing together more than 4,700 tsumego, historical games, and 15 of Hikaru’s Go games. Overlays make territory and scoring visible to beginners.
2026 - May
1 postComplete Manga Solution: Frank Manga+, Frank Yomik, and the Prettify-Manga Extension
Frank Manga+ brings the MANGA Plus catalog to the desktop, while Prettify improves reading on websites and Kindle, and Frank Yomik adds furigana or translation to Japanese and Korean pages.
2026 - April
1 postTurning YouTube into a Karaoke App | Frank Karaoke
I built a Flutter Android app that overlays live scores on YouTube karaoke videos, using audio filtering and YIN in four modes. It’s fun, but scoring is still experimental.
2026 - March
4 postsTeaching People to Question the News | Frank Investigator
I built Frank Investigator to compare coverage, track omitted sources, and analyze news in 15 stages with three LLMs. The report flags omissions and reframing, but doesn’t issue final verdicts.
I Rewrote OpenClaw in Rust. Did It Work? | FrankClaw
I rewrote OpenClaw’s core in Rust as FrankClaw, with 56,586 lines, 7 channels, and fixes for the 7 audited critical vulnerabilities. It handles simple conversations, but complex workflows remain untested.
Going After Email Fraud | Frank FBI
I built Frank FBI to analyze forwarded emails in six layers, combining authentication, reputation, OSINT, and three LLMs. The result is a self-hosted risk report, with the data under your control.
My First Vibe Code Failure and How I Fixed It | Frank Yomik
How I spent days building a manga speech bubble detection system with OpenCV, threw it all out and rebuilt it in hours with a pretrained model. Lessons on vibe coding, productive failure, and knowing when to change course.
2026 - February
6 postsRANT: Did Akita Bend Over for AI??
I have been 'bending over' for AI since 2023. If you only watch out-of-context podcast clips, let me spell it out for you.
Vibe Code: I Built a Smart Image Indexer with AI in 2 Days | Frank Sherlock
How I built Frank Sherlock, a local AI-powered image catalog desktop app, in a weekend using Agile Vibe Coding with Claude Code.
From Zero to Post-Production in 1 Week - How to Use AI on Real Projects | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
How 274 commits in 8 days shipped a full newsletter, podcast, blog, and Discord bot to production using Extreme Programming with Claude Code as the pair.
RANT: Did AI Kill Programmers?
Akita's rant on why AI won't replace real programmers, why the programming bubble already popped, the S-curve ceiling of current LLM architecture, and what actually changes for engineers in the LLM era.
Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 2
Part 2 of the FrankMD story: refactoring, i18n, syntax highlighting, tests, and the hard-earned lessons from 30 hours of vibe coding with Claude.
Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 1
How I vibe-coded FrankMD, a self-hosted Markdown editor tailored to my blogging workflow, in three days with Claude Code.
2025 - June
1 postAGI or Skynet Isn't Coming Anytime Soon
Why the current LLM architecture cannot reach AGI, and why the hype from Big Tech CEOs and media-anointed experts is mostly backroom negotiation noise.
2025 - April
1 postDestroying the ChatGPT 4o "Personality"
How to disable ChatGPT's pseudo-human chatter and get straight, dry technical answers by tweaking the custom traits settings.