Keeping creativity on rails

Experiments balancing creativity and deterministic code generation

Nov 17 • 

Parker Dorris

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Alignment vs. creativity in generative code development

The pros and cons of deterministic code generation and planning for some experiments

Nov 2 • 

Parker Dorris

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October 2025

Exploring ChatGPT connectors

I used OpenAI’s new support for MCP to enable ChatGPT to scan for Bluetooth devices

Oct 26 • 

Parker Dorris

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Custom Apps vs. AI-First mobile operating systems

Some failed PoCs helped me better understand what we want out of our mobile apps and how AI might impact UX at the OS level, not the app level

Oct 19 • 

Parker Dorris

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Could AI code assist unlock a new era of web and mobile user experience?

Speculative ideas about AI agents, app design, and the end of “static” mobile UX

Oct 4 • 

Parker Dorris

September 2025

Fake it 'til you make it

Using LLMs for spoofed data in development and testing

Sep 28 • 

Parker Dorris

Humans Vs. Web Scrapers

Positive developments toward a sustainable web publishing future

Sep 20 • 

Parker Dorris

Feature creeps and web scrapers

At an architectural crossroads on an AI project using web data

Sep 13 • 

Parker Dorris

Brave new bugs

AI code assist development pitfalls and context anxiety

Sep 6 • 

Parker Dorris

August 2025

MCP for instruments: final tests and conclusions

Using a simple pin monitor MCP server to test square wave frequencies and perform code profiling in Cursor

Aug 30 • 

Parker Dorris

MCP for debug instruments, part 2

Integrating a PoC pin monitor MCP server for code profiling in Cursor

Aug 23 • 

Parker Dorris

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MCP For Debug Instruments

First steps experimenting with connecting AI to tools

Aug 16 • 

Parker Dorris

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