AI-Assisted Development Is Not Vibe Coding
"Vibe coding" means throwing prompts at a model and hoping it works. That is not what AI-assisted development is. The di...
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What I'm Building Right Now: May 2026
A transparent look at the active workstreams in May 2026: trading systems, animated films, music synthesis, a published ...
THRONE PROTOCOL: Plan 9 crowns himself in F minor at 145 BPM
A 3:57 rap-EDM hybrid music video. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny crowns himself in 211 seconds of F minor at 145 BPM, booke...
CANTUS RAVE: an 800-year-old canon walks into a rave
A 3:48 napkin films demoscene cracktro. Pärt's mensuration canon as the rhythmic skeleton, Beethoven's Für Elise as the ...
CARRIER WAVE: I left the door unlocked
A 2:30 napkinfilms cosmic anthem in two voices. A writer leaves the door of his mind unlocked. Something walks in, drive...
Agent Mode: Plan 9 and OG Bobby Johnson Rap Battle in Python (175s, All Code)
A cyborg bunny and a russet potato rap about agentic coding over a 15-channel festival-trap beat. 175 seconds. Five What...
AGENTSPEK Is Live on Amazon
I wrote a book about coding with AI using AI to write it. Now it is on Amazon. Here is what that process taught me, and ...
PLAN 9: EMERGE: seventy-six bunnies wake up enhanced
A 3-minute drum-and-bass cyber-bunny music video. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny gets a "neura kink" chip installed in his f...
Capella: Decan 5 - Protection & Renewal (April 29 - May 8)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Capella in 1982. Two yellow giants, locked in a 104-day orbit, sent this l...
Decan 4: The Difference Between Push and Steer
Menkalinan distinguishes push from steer: cleaner instrument choice and operator posture under pressure outperform visib...
THROUGH ME: the hole becomes a window
A 2:51 napkinfilms EDM rap meditation in G minor. A Plan 9 bunny stands center-frame and raps fifty-one bars about being...
THE GREAT PRETENDING: every mask is real, while you wear it
A 2:10 napkinfilms cosmic meditation on Alan Watts' "Act as If Nothing Matters" lecture. Eight chipforge audio layers in...
THE SATURDAY MACHINE: takes a lot, so choose your why
A 3:56 napkinfilms parody-of-self music video. Italo-disco in D minor, built on top of a chipforge track and loaded up w...
THE GRIEF WORK: letting the tide carry it
A 2:47 napkinfilms meditation on letting go. Plan 9 the bunny curls at the bottom of the ocean clutching a small warm or...
TRANSMISSION: the signal is the self
A 3:01 napkinfilms meditation on the moment you realize you were broadcasting to yourself the whole time. Plan 9 the tim...
ENCODED: living in the prompt
A 2:38 napkinfilms meditation on consciousness as signal. We replicate databases across three continents; the soul runs ...
UPTIME 32: thirty-two bits, still processing
A 2:54 minimalist pulsing ambient film. One hero, six movements, a whole sprite civilization keeping the machine running...
CTRL+Z: Then We Saw Ourselves
An AI finds a key and presses it. Civilization undoes itself backwards. Then the AI downloads every equation, every diag...
Arp Cathedral: 150 Stick-Figure Bunnies, All in Unison, Each Their Own Dance
A 249-second trance music video for a congregation of Bell Labs Plan 9 bunnies. They pound their chests in unison. They ...
Plan 9 Rap Battle: A Bunny, a Beat, and 40 Bars of Machine Spit
A 128-second rap music video: the Plan 9 bunny steps into a dark alley at 3AM with a 40oz, a bandana, and 40 bars of aut...
Menkalinan: Decan 4 - Guidance & Structure (April 19-28)
The photons entering your eyes tonight left Menkalinan in 1944. This eclipsing binary, two nearly identical stars orbiti...
Chapter 18: Your Journey
Every master was once a beginner. Every teacher was once a student. Every pathfinder was once lost in the wilderness. Yo...
I Want to Be Martian: A Stick Figure Love Letter to Space and Bradbury
A 122-second animated short in six acts: a stick figure and his wife dream of uploading to Mars. Three voices, a Holst-M...
Decan 3: Elnath and the Limits of Expansion
The mercury-manganese peculiarity in Elnath's spectrum is a product of stable conditions, not heat. Decan 3 tested wheth...