I measured my music taste, then asked AI to make music for it. It couldn't.

1,551 liked songs analyzed from the audio itself, a ten-cluster taste profile, then three attempts at generating music to match: two commercial models and a piece composed as code. All rejected. The same profile then produced sixty-one human-made recommendations, which was the point after all.

Five old WordPress sites, one morning, zero PHP left

I had Claude Code turn four end-of-life WordPress installs and a 2011 DokuWiki into static HTML, with every URL preserved. What it did, how it verified itself, and where its own checks lied to it.

My life, had I been born in 1872

I asked ChatGPT to sketch my life a century earlier, based on everything it knows about me. It gave me a realistic version in one paragraph and then a much better one. Translated in full, with the family's verdict.

I had an AI agent climb my family tree

Years ago my parents photographed a wooden statue in a dune village and wondered whether the man was an ancestor. In one Sunday, Claude Code worked through the Dutch public archives from my grandfather back to 1790 and answered that. Also: the wrong turns it took, and the wall it could not get past.