protodemo workshop

A small wall of half-built things.

Prototypes, variants, and ideas I'm testing in the open. Look around — tell me what works.

A series, in four parts

Redaction ladder, Depth, Voice and Writing ask one question between them: how small can a model get before it stops being useful? Each answers it the same way — pick a size, watch the quality move, decide for yourself where the floor is. A privacy filter still does real work at 17 MB. A sentence costs 137 MB and comes out confidently wrong.

All four download into your browser and run on your own machine, so the document you paste, the photo you drop in and the sentence you type stay where they are. That is not a promise about good behaviour; there is no server here to send them to.

On the wall right now
spark

Your idea?

Got one I should try? Send it.

Learn shows you how something works Play exists to be enjoyed Useful does a real job Private runs on your machine; nothing you give it is sent anywhere Download there is something to install

Each idea gets its own corner — sometimes its own subdomain. Sparks are notes. Cooking ones are being built in the open: they work, mostly, and some of them are rough. Polished ones are finished — tested until they behave, with their remaining limits written down.

Everything here is live in the ordinary sense, so that word was doing no work. The distinction worth making is whether a thing is done. Showing the unfinished ones is the point of the wall: if something is half-built, I would rather say so and hear what breaks than wait until it is perfect and quietly never ship it. Things move between states. Some graduate into real products. Others get pinned up and quietly forgotten.