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2026.04.10 The Models That Work Too Well #ai Anthropic won't ship Claude Mythos. OpenAI is staggering Spud. Two frontier labs, one week, the same flinch. Default-ship is quietly becoming default-gate.
2026.04.09 Everyone Hates AI in Games. Everyone's Already Using It. #ai 85% of players reject AI in games. 90% of developers already use it. The gap between those numbers is where the future of game design actually lives.
2026.04.08 AI Gave Robots a Brain. The Hard Part Just Started. #ai Jensen Huang called 2026 the "ChatGPT moment" for physical AI. The real story is more interesting, and more complicated.
2026.04.06 The Three-Year Forecast for Knowledge Work #ai AI hasn't wiped out knowledge jobs yet. But the next three years will reshape them beyond recognition.
2026.04.05 The Spark Came Back #career AI coding tools didn't just make me faster. They brought back the part of building I thought I'd lost for good.
2026.04.04 Work Work: How Claude Code Joined WoW's Addon Arms Race #ai When Blizzard killed WeakAuras, RWF guilds turned to Claude Code to build custom boss addons mid-race. AI coding tools just became part of competitive raiding.
2026.04.03 OpenClaw: The AI Agent That's Selling Out Mac Minis #ai OpenClaw turned the Mac Mini into a personal AI appliance. Here's what it is, why people are buying dedicated hardware for it, and what can go wrong.
2026.04.02 What's the Difference Between LLMs and World Models? #ai Yann LeCun just raised a billion dollars betting that world models are the future. Here's what that actually means.
2026.04.01 Strawberries, Sisters, and Carwashes: What Viral LLM Failures Actually Reveal #ai Why the internet's favorite LLM gotchas aren't random bugs, but windows into how models actually work.
2026.03.31 The Software Developer of Today Writes No Code #career I handed off all code writing to Claude Code. The job already changed.
2026.03.31 Botwash: A Post-Mortem for a Product That Got Out-Evolved #product Building for a problem with a shelf life, and what I'd do differently next time.
2026.03.30 Slipstream: Building a 51M Parameter F1 Expert LLM in a Weekend #ai A transformer from scratch, trained on F1 Wikipedia articles. 51M parameters, 3.5 hours on a MacBook Pro.

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Lloyd Rowat
Lloyd Rowat Builder. AI tinkerer. Lifelong learner.

I'm a software developer with over a decade of experience building platforms, shipping products, and leading technical direction across companies of all sizes. I have a Master's in computer science from the University of Waterloo, and my career has taken me from telecom systems to data analytics to construction tech.

These days, AI is where my energy goes. I see it as the most important shift in software since the internet, and a turning point for humanity as a whole. I'm excited to keep learning and to be building at its edge.

Grayforge Labs is my personal forge — where I take the ideas that won't leave me alone and turn them into tools that actually work. I build software the way a blacksmith works metal: with patience, precision, and an obsession with getting the details right.

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