Lab notes

What we ship, with the numbers.

July 27, 2026 What we learned putting AI glasses on a robot bench We wanted to know what AI glasses are good for when the thing you're looking at is a machine and the result has to land in an operational system, not a chat window. So we built the loop on our own arm and wrote down what the bench taught us.
July 18, 2026 The best Thai speech-to-text models drop every English word We benchmarked five speech-to-text systems on Thai — commercial APIs and open models, scored the same way. The ones that nail Thai characters throw away the English, and one common default fails outright.
June 2, 2026 Matching NVIDIA's flagship PII detector with a model 3× smaller A 50M-parameter model ties NVIDIA's gliner-PII on the same benchmark, trained in 39 minutes for ~$8 — a reproducible demonstration that a task-specific model can be far smaller than the general one.
May 25, 2026 Every agent needs a wallet Agents need identity and credentials. We built kern — an open-source TypeScript SDK for agent secrets, built on age encryption.
May 25, 2026 MCP Apps are here. Your tools can ship UI into Claude and ChatGPT. MCP tools can now return interactive UI that renders inside AI clients. Here's how it works, what it means, and what's missing.
May 25, 2026 Elicitation: MCP's standard for human-in-the-loop MCP servers can now ask users for input mid-execution. Here's the protocol and why it matters for agent trust.
May 25, 2026 We screenshot our Windows app from CI. Here's how. How we built an e2e smoke test that installs our Tauri app on Windows, logs in with real credentials, and captures screenshots — all in GitHub Actions.
May 25, 2026 A2UI vs MCP Apps: two standards for agent UI, and why you'll need both Google's A2UI ships declarative JSON. MCP Apps ships full HTML. Here's when to use which.