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Jamie Duncan

Engineering, craft, and curiosity.

Self-taught engineer, recovering history major. Tech, woodworking, home automation.

Recent Entries

Is ASCII Art the True Turing Test?
Technical

Is ASCII Art the True Turing Test?

Two frontier models couldn't draw an ASCII map of the US. Why LLMs read ASCII art fine but can't write it, and what that says about the jagged frontier.

LLMs Were Always Going to Be a Commodity
Technical

LLMs Were Always Going to Be a Commodity

Chinese AI labs keep matching frontier models for a fraction of the cost. Here's why that was inevitable, and why US AI CEOs stayed calmer than the headlines.

Running a Wiki Whose Main Reader Is a Machine
Technical

Running a Wiki Whose Main Reader Is a Machine

I replaced a local RAG setup with an LLM wiki: a repo my marketing agent reads directly. The pattern that keeps a machine-first knowledge base true over time.

How You Do Something Matters
Technical

How You Do Something Matters

A horror show about a town with no rules cracked open something I've been chewing on: what belongs in an AI harness, and what should be left to the agent.