Category:AI Systems

How computers learned to create

Foundations · Part 3

Not copy-paste. Not a collage of stolen pieces.

The idea that changed everything

Foundations · Part 2

One clever trick called "attention" is the real reason AI suddenly got good. Here's the whole idea, no math required.

What's actually inside ChatGPT?

Foundations · Part 1

Not a brain. Not magic.

I Built an 11,200-Example Synthetic Dataset, Fine-Tuned a Model, and Then Didn't Ship It

A post-mortem on the Dragon Commentary Studio LoRA: what the data pipeline got right, why the fine-tune still lost to the base model, and why shipping the base model was the correct engineering call.

Keeping a Vision Pipeline Honest: Three Hallucination Guards I Built for a Video-Captioning Agent

How Dragon Commentary Studio separates perception from schema, filters OCR by consensus, and gates every caption through a critic loop.

I Trained a Board-Game AI From Zero Using Self-Play (and Broke It Several Times First)

How Caro5's bot went from a frozen laptop and a useless first model to a generate → train → arena → promote loop running on Modal.