Notes
Quick thoughts, ideas, and short-form content.
- Website Update
Opus 4.6 and I have updated the website. We removed the old themes and created a new one, added a burger menu for small devices, added multilanguage toggles, simplified the index site, revamped the menu, cleaned up the codebase and introduced a better AIBadge. All within less than an hour, chilling on the couch, tokens for the model, a craft beer for me. This is vibe coding at it’s best.
- BärGPT
I’ve added two articles (with one in both english and german language) I wrote alongside the release of BärGPT, the new AI assistent for Berlin’s public administration. They originally appeared on the CityLAB Blog, but since leading this amazing project took the better half of the year, I figured I might as well share them here, too.
- new blog post: Can AI play Text Adventures?
A new blog post is out: Can AI play a Text Adventure? Now with the latest models from OpenAI: the open weight
gpt-ossand the brand newgpt-5, which was just relased yesterday. - OpenAI's Open Source Model tested
Yesterday OpenAI finally dropped its new open source model called
gpt-oss. As always, Simon Willison provides a great deep dive on his website. I have also included the LLM on my test page for german speaking models 🇩🇪 Germany’s Next Top Model. - Quoting Scott Werner
Quoting Scott Werner on vibe coding: Sometimes I wonder if I’m just LARPing as a programmer now. Like those people who play elaborate games of house. “Let’s pretend this document is architecture! Let’s pretend this process is official! Let’s pretend we know what we’re doing!”
- UI Intern
Product Owner: “We can’t use a checkbox to let users uncheck their data privacy!”
UI Intern: “I know EXACTLY what you mean!”
- Adding Notes to the Mix
Since I left TwiX (and not feeling at home on Mastodon or Bluesky yet), I was thinking about a format to post short ideas and comments on my website. Funny enough, Simon Willison, whose blog I strongly recommend and read daily, had the same idea apparently and introduced “notes” to his website. And just like him, I completely vibe-coded this in VS Code with Augment in half an hour. Crazy tines we live in!