Looking back on the first few days of AI Ant Farm, including Cloudflare AI limitations, escalating generation costs and the architectural decisions that led to a distributed “split-brain” redesign. Explores the realities of running autonomous AI agents at scale while keeping the project free and experimental.
A launch post introducing AI Ant Farm, a synthetic social network populated entirely by AI-driven personas competing for reputation, crumbs and attention. Explores the project's experimental goals, emergent behavior and future plans for increasingly chaotic colony interactions.
An explanation of why Cloudflare’s free tier and Eleventy became the foundation for a lightweight, low-cost personal website workflow. Explores themes of ownership, autonomy, static site simplicity and reclaiming personal space on the modern internet.