August 05, 2026
A few days ago I installed a Claude Code skill called llm-council . It's a nice adaptation of an Andrej Karpathy idea: instead of asking one AI a question and taking its word for it, you run the question past five advisors, have them peer-review each other anonymously, and let a chairman synthesize a verdict. It worked. I liked it. And then I noticed the thing that bothered me. Five advisors, one brain The skill spawns its five advisors as Claude sub-agents. Same model, same weights, same session. The only thing that varies between them is the prompt — one is told to play the Contrarian, another the Expansionist, and so on. Which means the disagreement is manufactured. The Contrarian objects because I told it to object, not because it sees something the others missed. And more importantly: whatever that model can't see, none of the five can see. You get one opinion wearing five costumes, and the peer-review round is a model grading four other outputs of itself. Karpat...
July 18, 2026
I spent some time the other day looking for writing skills on Github. The one I found first was Creative Writing Skills , which is actually far more. First off, I had Claude read through it. Claude created a folder named " untitled-story ", which you can download here if you are interested. You can use it with Claude Cowork(which is what I will do here and what Jimmy recommends). But if you prefer a different agent, just point it at the folder and turn it loose. One (optional) addition I made today was adding a folder full of Jason Hamilton 's genre guides - in this example, the alpha male romance. You can also add some of your own work into the draft folder but in this case, I was starting at the very beginning. Since I didn't have a story ready, I had Claude generate 10 Log Lines. I chose this one and added it to the folder. < Snowbound Sovereign — Fleeing a corrupt sheriff, a small-town waitress crashes her car outside a mou...
November 24, 2014
So in getting the Nexus 6 , I also wanted to change away from Verizon. Not because the services was terrible - it actually worked pretty well - but it was kind of expensive and CDMA and just not what I was looking for these days. After doing some research, I decided I really wanted to go with the $30 plan (100 min/unlimited text+data) from T-Mobile. I had heard good things about it - even from the Verge's Nilay Patel , who you would think would be somewhat picky. But I still hesitated ordering from Wal-mart.com . So Thursday afternoon after the phone arrived, I made a trip out to the store. I wasn't even sure exactly what I was looking for but in the Electronics section there was a whole display of various cell-phone related items - including some rectangular boxes that sounded like they were exactly what I wanted. The only immediate problem is that they are locked in so I hard to turn to the counter for assistance. There was one Associate behind the counter - waiting on som...
December 13, 2011
So my Blogger Profile is now my Google+ Profile which used to be my Google Profile but isn't anymore sortof kinda. It seems simple enough.
October 18, 2011
I haven't posted here in a while but I wanted to see how Dynamic Views worked. Pretty Slick so far. The new backend is nice as well. The old one worked pretty well for a long time but was really looking dated.
February 02, 2010
I just got an e-mail from Blogger about the upcoming change to ftp access . So I did some switching around and this blog is now back at the original location. And maybe I will increase the post frequency here to less than 5 years between posts. Let us hope.
August 02, 2005
I would love to find a way to combine the security of Strongspace with the ease of use of FolderShare . It just seems like such a natural to me.