Personal projects · AI-assisted

Slop or Not?

Built with AI. Jury’s still out.

Things I’m building for myself with a little (okay, a lot of) help from AI. Small tools, rabbit holes, and ideas that escaped the chat window. You can be the judge.

The evidence

2 exhibits & counting
Relay project board with a human approval queue, active agent work, and workflow columns. View full size
Exhibit 01

Relay

A little order for a lot of agents.

Coordinating agents can turn into endless transcript archaeology. Relay gives me a local project board and a CLI to scope work, review handoffs and keep a human in the loop.

  • Agent workflows
  • CLI
  • Local-first
mkd displaying a formatted README in reading view, with a document outline on the left and an Edit button above. View full size
Exhibit 02

mkd

Just let me read the Markdown.

I built mkd for myself to quickly open Markdown files in a clean, readable view. Run mkd README.md from the terminal and it opens straight into a formatted preview, diagrams included.

  • Markdown
  • Desktop app
  • Local-first

More evidence as I build it. The jury is welcome to take its time.

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