Sunset Duckies
31 May 2026 3 min read
The First Heat
The board looked finished on land. The real test was paddling it out at Tamarin with other kids watching, and surfing it like his.
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Field notes from the studio
Hi, I'm Andras.
Founder and serial entrepreneur. Tech geek, hands-on builder. Husband and dad. Writing on the practice of building — and the quieter art of showing up.
Plate №01
Made with heart in Budapest
Grown up in Switzerland
Surfing in Mauritius
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Today's featured dispatch
№023 · The Dispatch
The Person Looking for the Lie
An agent will write the system, the tests, and a confident paragraph explaining why it's safe. Red teaming is the part where one named person assumes it's lying and goes to find the lie. Here's what that actually looks like on a real diff.
18 Jun 2026 7 min read
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Section II
From the archive
AI Slop
30 May 2026 5 min read
Remedies for the Slop
The last post was the diagnosis. This is what to do about AI slop, as one person, as a team, and as a company. None of it is banning the tools.
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Sunset Duckies
30 May 2026 23 min read
Sunset Duckies: The Board
Noah's first custom surfboard is finished. Three months of foam dust, slow sanding, waiting, spray paint, one duck he drew, and a logo style the kids argued into shape together.
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AI Slop
29 May 2026 5 min read
How Do You Take Anything Seriously Anymore?
Software is drowning in fluent, confident output that no one actually thought through. A rant about AI slop, with a confession I'd rather not make.
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Balaton Cottage
28 May 2026 8 min read
Every Project Is the Same Project: A Failed Architect Trial
I've run a lot of software projects and assumed building a house would be different. The architect trial for our Balaton cottage failed the exact way software projects fail: competent work, wrong intent. The result had the texture of AI slop, which is now arriving in the trades too. Here's what went wrong, and the parts worth keeping.
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Baubiber
20 May 2026 6 min read
Gaussian splatting in Baubiber, and the slightly absurd state of 3D worlds
I shipped Gaussian splats into Baubiber so a contractor in Pécs can walk around a kitchen in Tamarindo from a browser tab. A few notes on what the tech is, where the world-model people are heading, and how early everything still is.
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