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Experiments at the edge of AI & engineering

Hands-on tests of how AI tools really behave when you push them. Real builds, real data, full source. Each experiment is reproducible — pick one and look at the receipts.

Live experiments

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2026-10-16 · ● Live · 10 pages · 50 builds

Kanban, Stories, Features, Sprint? Which Planning Method Works Best With AI?

One app idea, planned five ways, built 25 times by Claude Code and 25 times by Codex, each graded by the other company's AI. Every plan produced a running app; what the plan left out mattered more than how deep it went.

5 planning styles 50 AI builds 2 agents 29 fake passes caught
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2026-08-24 · ● Live · 2 pages

Understanding Is All You Need

AI does blast out code, and that part is real. Twenty four numbers on what it costs: 17x the code for 1.3x the software, review time up 441 percent, and zero studies measuring what it does to the people writing it.

14 research passes ~200 agents 24 numbers
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2026-05-08 · ● Live · 4 reports

Karpathy vs 8 CLAUDE.MDs

Karpathy's CLAUDE.md vs the internet's most-liked CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md files — plus a few of my own. The results aren't what you'd expect.

9 CLAUDE.md variants 126 code builds 378 LLM judgements 27 live smoke tests
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Coming soon · ○ Drafting

More experiments in flight

Prompt-specificity curve (3+ specificity levels), tool-use reliability across model versions, agent-vs-orchestrator latency. New experiments published as runs complete.