https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ Notes from the forge: thoughts on AI, software craft, and building in public. en-us Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Grayforge Labs build https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-guilt-fomo https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-guilt-fomo Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 career Why the more you build with AI, the further behind you feel. Notes on the ambient pressure to keep shipping, and how to tell useful guilt from the kind that just burns fuel. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ondevice-ai-undercurrent https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ondevice-ai-undercurrent Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ai I tried to ship a 3B parameter Llama inside an iOS app. iOS had other ideas. Here's what I learned about on-device AI, jetsam, and why Apple Intelligence won the round. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/models-work-too-well https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/models-work-too-well Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-game-design-gap https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-game-design-gap Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-robotics-2026 https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-robotics-2026 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ai Jensen Huang called 2026 the ChatGPT moment for physical AI. The real story is more interesting: the robot brains are here, but deployment is where the race begins. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-knowledge-jobs https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/ai-knowledge-jobs Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ai AI hasn't wiped out knowledge jobs yet. But the next three years will reshape them beyond recognition. Here's what the data says is coming. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/blog-ai-coding-joy https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/blog-ai-coding-joy Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 career AI coding tools didn't just make me faster. They brought back the part of building I thought I'd lost for good. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/wow-rwf-ai-era https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/wow-rwf-ai-era Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ai When Blizzard killed WeakAuras, RWF guilds turned to Claude Code to build custom boss addons in real-time. AI coding tools just became part of competitive raiding. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/openclaw https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/openclaw Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/llm-vs-world-models https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/llm-vs-world-models Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ai Yann LeCun left Meta to bet on world models over LLMs. What's the difference, and why does it matter for the future of AI? noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/llm-reasoning-viral-failures https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/llm-reasoning-viral-failures Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ai How many r's in strawberry? How many sisters does Alice's brother have? Should you drive or walk to the carwash? Each breaks AI at a different layer. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/future-software-developer https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/future-software-developer Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 career Since December 2025, I've handed off basically all code writing to Claude Code. The shift already happened. Here's what the job actually is now. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/botwash-retrospective https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/botwash-retrospective Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 product Botwash was a car wash for AI text. It never found product-market fit because the problem it solved disappeared before launch. Here's what I learned. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat) https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/slipstream https://grayforgelabs.com/posts/slipstream Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ai I pair-programmed with Claude and built a 51-million parameter transformer trained on Formula 1 Wikipedia articles. Here's what I learned about how LLMs actually work. noreply@grayforgelabs.com (Lloyd Rowat)