Build log
What each project took, episode by episode
Each Empty Folder episode takes one thing built with an AI agent and says what happened, what broke, and what it cost to find out. Every one is on YouTube, and the written-up ones are here to read.
5 episodes · 5 written up · the playlist on YouTube
PriceReduced
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It read a price off a blank page. 8 times out of 8.
A hotel page that reduces to a single space was sent to a language model, which answered 19.99 every time. The guard against that is 4 characters.
Sharks News Aggregator
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A hockey feed published a rugby story. The fix was worse.
A relevance filter was measured before it merged, shipped, and reverted 16 minutes later, because its test data had a season in it.
Pipedia
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We measured the wrong thing for a month
Two YouTube channels, a dashboard read every week, and three faults in one month that were all the bottom of a fraction.
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An AI agent built a YouTube channel. Here is what broke.
One sentence and an empty folder became a YouTube channel for young children. Three confident claims failed on the way, and five lessons came out.
Bus Tourist Craze
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The difficulty model rated 100 levels. It never played one.
A puzzle game’s difficulty model passed every check and was wrong by 5x one way and 0.5x the other. What it could not see, and five lessons.