Two AI links
2026-01-05 23:31:41.851146+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Two from Tara Calishain: Claude is growing a tomato plant:
A developer named Martin DeVido gave Claude complete control over a living tomato plant that he named Sol. This might be the coolest agentic experiment I've seen. You can follow along live at autoncorp.com/biodome.
Via. (It's interesting clicking through that "autoncorp.com/biodome" link and read through a bit of the transcript)
And: Alaska's court system built an AI chatbot. It didn't go smoothly. They started with 91 questions, which were too hard to grade, so they went down to 16...
So Sato said the team landed on a refined list of just 16 test questions, featuring “some questions that AVA had answered incorrectly, some that were complicated, and some that were pretty basic questions that we think AVA may be asked frequently.”
And... yeah. LLMs gonna LLM, the only reason you put "AI" in your user interface chain is if you don't care about the users and just wanna blow them off. Via