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  • We are in the Uncanny Valley

    We are in the Uncanny Valley

    I did something over the weekend that I’m still kinda coming to terms with and I’m not sure how to take. I am running a new TTRPG campaign. This one is using the very first game system I ever played, Mage: the Ascension, set in the 90s and using Severance as the thematic base. I’ve…

  • The Lovecraft Test: Fable 5.1

    The Lovecraft Test: Fable 5.1

    I haven’t used Claude Fable at all since it came out. Mostly I’ve been intimidated by the credit usage and feeling like I don’t really have anything that’s “Fable-worthy” (whatever that means). But it’s been a while since I ran a Lovecraft test and I decided to pit what’s maybe? arguably? the world’s best LLM…

  • What I learned from building actualplaydb.com

    What I learned from building actualplaydb.com

    I spent the weekend chasing a rabbit down a hole. I built an IMDB for actual plays…mostly from my phone. The thought process went something like this: Aabriya Iyengar has been in a bunch of live TTRPG actual plays, both the mainstream kind (Dimension 20, Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, Dungeons & Dragons official) and…

  • I don’t miss not writing code

    I don’t miss not writing code

    Five years ago, I was so burnt out, I didn’t think I had a future being a software engineer. Five years ago, I thought I couldn’t cut it. I didn’t have the chops. I couldn’t keep up. Coding was not fun. I began to wonder if it ever was fun. One of the arguments against…

  • The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS.

    The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS.

    I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from a self-proclaimed 20 year agency veteran of WordPress saying that was it, they’re moving the entire agency off of WordPress and onto AI. Now, because I, too, am a 20 year veteran of WordPress, this kind of story catches my attention. He posted that they…

  • Disclosing AI use

    Disclosing AI use

    This is based on a thread that I posted to Bluesky that I decided to keep here for posterity. If you want to discuss on Bluesky, follow me at @jazzsequence.com and let’s chat. Let’s talk about AI. I’ve been using it a lot recently. It’s not that I don’t see or care about the environmental…

  • What if AI slop had its own social network?

    What if AI slop had its own social network?

    I want to talk today about Sora 2 and the new Sora AI app. First of all, Sora is not new. OpenAI released Sora about a year ago initially and, at the time, it was a sort of hidden part of ChatGPT that let you make bad videos. And trust me, they were bad. I…

  • The Lovecraft Test, Gemini 2.5-pro

    The Lovecraft Test, Gemini 2.5-pro

    At the same time as I was fighting with GPT-5 to give me the thing I actually wanted, I also used the Gemini app and the access I have to pro-level Gemini models to do the Lovecraft test with 2.5-pro. Previously, I had only tested with Flash-2.0, so, not only should this be a more…

  • Keep the web weird

    Keep the web weird

    I’ve seen a lot of doomsaying about the death of the internet. Last night, I was reading about how integrated AI answers in search results leads to a drastic drop in clicks to the actual sites from which AIs derive the information to answer those questions or make those suggestions. It’s been noted that AI…

  • The Lovecraft Test, Gemini

    The Lovecraft Test, Gemini

    I’ve been sitting on this one for longer than I should have (and then, obviously, forgetting entirely about it). After putting DeepSeek through the ropes for my Lovecraft test, I decided to try Google’s Gemini. I haven’t used Gemini much, although I have used NotebookLLM which is based on Gemini, and I think it generally…