AI, in context.
Understanding AI — no hype, no panic.
Hands-on experience, perspective and guidance from a developer who builds applications with them. lostcontext.ai gives the AI debate its context back — and your chats, too.
The thread
Five pieces that lay the groundwork — read in this order, the topic falls into place. Your reading state travels along.
- When a model runs out of context
- Which model for what? The three dials
- Convincingly wrong
- My AI keeps notes on me
- MCP explained: the USB port for AI tools
Also here
Workshop notes
- What we really talked about 3 min
- The last word 4 min
- 584 photos, one Monday 4 min
- An AI builds a mini AI 3 min
- When our mail started landing in spam 4 min
- Four blue screens, one pattern 4 min
- Instability is poison 4 min
- Agents on a long leash 4 min
- The AI that looked like malware 3 min
- Fourteen languages, one AI — and why humans still get the last word 4 min
- AI culls my wedding photos — and invents what it can't see 4 min
- The ugly cat 4 min
Basics
You and AI
- What AI does to us 8 min
Behind the site
- Why lostcontext.ai? 2 min