Piloting Claude and Gemini on Debian from Signal

I document the rapid evolution of tooling for my web app, nocodefunctions.com. The previous steps are documented in From NetBeans to Claude Code (Jan 2026). ...

From NetBeans to Claude Code

I document the rapid evolution of tooling for my web app, with a focus on Java. I highlight how changes in “tooling” co-occurred with an evolution of my tech...

Productivity and AI: it's the tool, not the model

Every week, a new “SOTA” (State of the Art) model is announced, promising higher reasoning capabilities and (often) lower costs. We could be led to think tha...

Review of Empire of AI by Karen Hao

Published in May 2025, Empire of AI is a masterful piece of investigative reporting by Karen Hao, a journalist who has been following the AI tech scene in th...

November 2025: China on my mind

I feel a bit sorry for the gloomy tone of this post (at least from a European vantage point), but the developments below are worth pointing and discussing. ...