Category: Tech Tinkerer
-
Enhancing Decision Making with AI in Tactical Decision Games
A few weeks back I rode with an unusual mix of people. I was the ride lead. I knew the target destination. It wasn’t that far. Because of that, I decided to adopt a very loose posture toward planning the ride. After the ride, I said to myself: never again.
-
From Spreadsheet to a Web App: Vibe Coding my Travel Itinerary
Still intimidated by “vibe coding” even if everyone says it’s easy? Despite using Claude Code at work, I wanted to see if I could build something from scratch using only free Gemini and VS Code. Here’s how I turned my messy travel spreadsheet into a custom web app.
-
Increasing Signal-to-Noise in LLM Systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) are impressive tools. They can summarize information, answer questions, and generate explanations on almost any topic. But raw LLMs also operate in a high-noise environment. They generate responses based on statistical patterns learned from huge datasets. That means useful insights are often mixed with irrelevant details, shallow reasoning, or occasionally incorrect…