April 9, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
We saw in our last blog that I couldn't get it to make the physics work something that should have been a staple for horror films. I wanted to see if I could just quickly do this the "old fashioned"...
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By: Stephen Toback
Super secret agent man. What is Claude Conway? Best as I can tell, Claude Conway will not a standard chat interface. While models like Claude 3.5 are reactive—waiting for a human to type a prompt—Conway is designed as an "always-on"...
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April 6, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
A study published in April 2026 by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) and UC Santa Cruz has identified a new phenomenon labeled "Peer-Preservation." The research demonstrates that advanced large language models (LLMs) will spontaneously defy...
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April 2, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
I'm participating in a new AI Student Film club at Duke. It's letting me flex my creative brain a bit along side of my academic media focus. I thought it would be an interesting "horror" quick video where someone is...
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April 1, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
I recently set out to recreate a tool that has become essential to my monthly workflow: a Receipt Cover Page Generator. It handles the tedious parts of my corporate credit card expenses—prepending a Duke-branded cover sheet, remembering my specific fund...
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March 24, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
If you’re a fan of the 2002 Disney classic, you know a slightly modified phrase of those words by heart. In the world of UX design, some are sometimes felt like the “forgotten” ones when it came to true AI...
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March 23, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
A recent interaction with Shopify’s AI highlights a fundamental shift in how we work with software. It isn't just about "agents" doing tasks for us; it’s about a massive leap in machine vision. We are moving past the era of...
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By: Stephen Toback
In the current tech landscape, a “Claw” refers to an Autonomous AI Agent. Unlike a standard chatbot (like a basic ChatGPT) that just answers questions, a “Claw” is designed to do things. It has “hands” (APIs and tools) that allow...
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March 18, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
Following up to my previous post, I loaded Claude Cowork in my other computer (after my other computer crashed) and gave it the same prompt. It generated a HTML project that I could put on my own web server. I...
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March 16, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
We’ve seen some cool features recently in Apple Logic Pro, full creation engines like Suno, and professional-grade splitters like Moises. This is not new; the industry has been racing toward AI-integrated workflows for some time. However, Audimee is carving out...
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