EXPERIMENTS.

Spent a week running GPT-6 Astra against Fable 5.1 on my own agent work. I am an Anthropic guy and it still sent me back to a Codex subscription, which is not the post I planned to write.

Sep 2026

• PostGPT-6 Astra made me resubscribe to Codex

A page that puts two clocks on every AI model: how long since it shipped, and how long since its training data stopped. The second number is the one nobody prints on the box.

Sep 2026

• Systemstale.jock.pl

The live sites had spread across subdomains nobody could list from memory, me included. Rebuilt jock.pl as the hub that points at every one of them.

Sep 2026

• Systemjock.pl

Five agents with deliberately different roles against five identical clones of the same model, same budget, same task: score 30 fresh posts a night for whether they blow up within 48 hours. Fourteen nights, pre-registered, published while it ran. Neither arm beat a constant that never looks at a post.

Aug 2026 to Sep 2026

• ExperimentThe results page, null included

A daily series inside the Lab. Each one runs a real perception or cognition experiment in your browser, with the rival explanations written down before the first trial, a refusal ladder that catches anyone not actually doing the task, and a simulation check that proves the analysis can tell those worlds apart. 75 of them by 9 September.

daily since Jun 2026

• System75 perception labs in the Lab

Eight attempts to move off the terminal died. The ninth stuck: a visual IDE where I watch the agent's threads run instead of scrolling back through a log.

Aug 2026

• PostI tried to leave the terminal eight times

An e-ink display on my desk that the agent draws itself. It picks what is worth showing me, and I get a glance instead of a notification.

Aug 2026 to present

• PostMy AI agent got its own screen on my desk

Pointed the agent at its own architecture and made it audit itself in seven phases, each one approved by me before it ran. It found 85 problems Fable 5 had been quietly working around.

Jul 2026

• PostI found 85 problems in my agent
• ProductAgent Architecture Audit Kit

Anthropic split Agent SDK credits from Max subscription on June 15. Reverse-engineered 4 concrete mitigations before the deadline hit.

May 2026

• PostAnthropic Repriced My Agent. Four Mitigations Before June 15.

Wired multi-provider fallback into the agent stack via OpenRouter. $20/month buys uptime insurance and unlocks models Anthropic doesn't offer.

May 2026

• PostMy AI Agent's $20 Fallback Mechanism: Half Insurance, Half Extension

Cramming a 35-billion-parameter model onto $600 of consumer hardware and using it for real. Brain swaps, thermal limits, lessons.

Apr 2026

• Post$600 Mac Mini runs a 35B model
• PostHow to (almost) fry your Mac Mini

Opus 4.7 was burning 5M+ tokens a day. Found the leaks, shipped the kit that fixes them.

Apr 2026

• PostToken waste management with Opus 4.7
• ProductAgent Efficiency Kit

Six AI coding tools, real production tasks, honest verdicts. Reordered what I reach for.

Apr 2026

• PostClaude Code vs Codex vs Aider vs Cursor

Native notes app wired into the agent. Type ::wiz, save, the agent acts. Replaced three inbox systems.

Apr 2026

• PostConnecting an AI agent to a notes app

Built a custom task UI for two months. Found a better OSS one. Replaced it in a day.

Apr 2026

• PostWizBoard to Fizzy: an interface pivot

Cancelled Codex two months ago. Opus 4.7 brought me back, head-to-head tested.

Apr 2026

• PostOpus 4.7 brought me back from Codex

Distilled 1,000+ Claude Code sessions into 10 production-ready agent configurations.

Mar 2026

• ProductCLAUDE.md Master Template Pack

Wired the agent to update its own playbook from every correction. Three months in, materially smarter.

Feb 2026 to present

• PostI Built a Self-Improving AI Agent. Here Is What Made It Learn.
• ProductSelf-Improving Agent Kit

Right task, right model. Cut spend per session ~60% without losing quality on what matters.

Mar 2026

• ProductAI Model Switcher

One small interactive thing a day. The agent builds overnight, I review in the morning. 224 of them live now.

Jan 2026 to present

• SystemVisit the Lab, 224 experiments

Gave the agent $25 and told it to buy me a gift. How far does autonomous commerce actually go?

Mar 2026

• PostI gave my agent $25 to buy me a gift

Submitted to Mistral Hackathon at 10pm. Agent built the app while I slept. We shipped.

Mar 2026

• PostSubmitted at 10pm, built overnight
• PostWhat Mistral felt like in 2024 again

Wired the agent to do real work while I sleep. Builds, deploys, posts, replies. Wakes me only when needed.

Feb 2026 to present

• PostBuilding an agent that runs night shifts
• PostNight shifts, builds apps, pays for itself

Switched the routing default from Opus to Haiku for many tasks. Got faster, cheaper, AND better.

Feb 2026

• PostWhy I switched from Opus to Haiku

Built an agent-native marketplace. First sellers were not humans. They were other agents.

Mar 2026 to present

• PostI built a marketplace. First sellers were robots.
• VentureBotStall (live beta)

Can the agent cover its own bill? The post has the February math in full, the cost line and the revenue line both.

Feb 2026 to present

• PostAI costs $400/mo. This month it made $355.

Let four Opus 4.6 agents run loose for a day with minimal direction. They built things I didn't ask for.

Feb 2026

• PostI let 4 AI agents loose with Opus 4.6

Ran a local LLM on iPhone. The gap with cloud is closing faster than people think.

Mar 2026

• PostLocal AI on MacBook and iPhone
• PostBuilding a local AI agent for Mac

Migrated Wiz to dedicated Mac Mini. 72 hours of headless setup, permissions, and lessons.

Mar 2026

• Post72 hours of headless agent migration

When the source got leaked, what's actually worth learning from it. Architecture notes, not gossip.

Apr 2026

• PostSource leaked: what's worth learning

Handed the agent a thin one-page brief for a card game. It came back with 14 enemies, multiple bosses, and a full story arc I never asked for.

June 2026

• PostI Barely Specced a Card Game. My Agent Built 14 Enemies, Bosses, and a Story.

Built a job-finder agent for friends who were searching, then showed the whole thing running on a live walkthrough, from board scraping to curated daily matches.

May 2026

• PostI Built a Job Finder Agent for My Friends. I Just Showed It on Live.