#artificial-intelligence
16 posts
2026 - July
2 posts2026 - May
1 post2026 - April
1 post2026 - March
4 posts2026 - February
6 posts- RANT: Did Akita Bend Over for AI??
- Vibe Code: I Built a Smart Image Indexer with AI in 2 Days | Frank Sherlock
- From Zero to Post-Production in 1 Week - How to Use AI on Real Projects | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
- RANT: Did AI Kill Programmers?
- Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 2
- Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 1
2025 - June
1 post2025 - April
1 post2026 - July
2 postsUsing AI to Solve My Little Day-to-Day Problems
A roundup of my small open source projects: a desk clock with widgets, manga readers, decent email, typing practice, YouTube karaoke, ComfyUI in Docker and more. All born from real little problems in my day-to-day.
Frank GO: Playing Go with AI
I built Frank GO as a Sabaki fork with KataGo, bringing together more than 4,700 tsumego, historical games, and 15 of Hikaru’s Go games. Overlays make territory and scoring visible to beginners.
2026 - May
1 postComplete Manga Solution: Frank Manga+, Frank Yomik, and the Prettify-Manga Extension
Frank Manga+ brings the MANGA Plus catalog to the desktop, while Prettify improves reading on websites and Kindle, and Frank Yomik adds furigana or translation to Japanese and Korean pages.
2026 - April
1 postTurning YouTube into a Karaoke App | Frank Karaoke
I built a Flutter Android app that overlays live scores on YouTube karaoke videos, using audio filtering and YIN in four modes. It’s fun, but scoring is still experimental.
2026 - March
4 postsTeaching People to Question the News | Frank Investigator
I built Frank Investigator to compare coverage, track omitted sources, and analyze news in 15 stages with three LLMs. The report flags omissions and reframing, but doesn’t issue final verdicts.
I Rewrote OpenClaw in Rust. Did It Work? | FrankClaw
I rewrote OpenClaw’s core in Rust as FrankClaw, with 56,586 lines, 7 channels, and fixes for the 7 audited critical vulnerabilities. It handles simple conversations, but complex workflows remain untested.
Going After Email Fraud | Frank FBI
I built Frank FBI to analyze forwarded emails in six layers, combining authentication, reputation, OSINT, and three LLMs. The result is a self-hosted risk report, with the data under your control.
My First Vibe Code Failure and How I Fixed It | Frank Yomik
How I spent days building a manga speech bubble detection system with OpenCV, threw it all out and rebuilt it in hours with a pretrained model. Lessons on vibe coding, productive failure, and knowing when to change course.
2026 - February
6 postsRANT: Did Akita Bend Over for AI??
I have been 'bending over' for AI since 2023. If you only watch out-of-context podcast clips, let me spell it out for you.
Vibe Code: I Built a Smart Image Indexer with AI in 2 Days | Frank Sherlock
How I built Frank Sherlock, a local AI-powered image catalog desktop app, in a weekend using Agile Vibe Coding with Claude Code.
From Zero to Post-Production in 1 Week - How to Use AI on Real Projects | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
How 274 commits in 8 days shipped a full newsletter, podcast, blog, and Discord bot to production using Extreme Programming with Claude Code as the pair.
RANT: Did AI Kill Programmers?
Akita's rant on why AI won't replace real programmers, why the programming bubble already popped, the S-curve ceiling of current LLM architecture, and what actually changes for engineers in the LLM era.
Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 2
Part 2 of the FrankMD story: refactoring, i18n, syntax highlighting, tests, and the hard-earned lessons from 30 hours of vibe coding with Claude.
Vibe Code: I Built a Markdown Editor From Scratch With Claude Code (FrankMD) PART 1
How I vibe-coded FrankMD, a self-hosted Markdown editor tailored to my blogging workflow, in three days with Claude Code.
2025 - June
1 postAGI or Skynet Isn't Coming Anytime Soon
Why the current LLM architecture cannot reach AGI, and why the hype from Big Tech CEOs and media-anointed experts is mostly backroom negotiation noise.
2025 - April
1 postDestroying the ChatGPT 4o "Personality"
How to disable ChatGPT's pseudo-human chatter and get straight, dry technical answers by tweaking the custom traits settings.