The second 'lab note'. More on the power and Achilles' heel of "brute force trial and error with token pattern statistics"
Author: gctwnl
I work in the trenches of real enterprise architecture and write on the basis of that.
Serious coding with LLMs. Lab notes 2026-09-25: Codex vs Claude Code, Usage Limit Resets
Before publishing about my very serious LLM-coding experiment, I am publishing a few shorter 'lab notes'. This is the first one.
Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
Coding with LLMs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) is often presented as the 'killer app' for Generative AI. But looking at data, it seems the one piece of the puzzle missing is actual cost. A quest into getting a less muddy picture about what is going on, with surprising results.
The key to real intelligence might be imagination
Just copied from an earlier version on LinkedIn, a short article describing the key role of imagination in intelligence and why that may mean that self-driving cars require true intelligence and more than just reacting to sensors.
ArchiMate NEXT: summary verdict, “what’s in a name?”, and a wild ride.
Fourth (and last) post about the ArchiMate NEXT snapshot from last summer. Summarising and then going wild on suggestions. Fasten your seatbelts, ArchiMate-geeks!
ArchiMate NEXT: On stories versus maps
A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of “ArchiMate NEXT” was published. Third of a few articles with my thoughts on the development, like the previous one focusing on an aspect that did not change (but maybe should)
ArchiMate NEXT: At your service!
A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of “ArchiMate NEXT” was published. Second of a few articles with my thoughts on the development. Focusing on ArchiMate's second essential property: external behaviour/structure (services, interfaces), versus internal and the role of abstractions.
ArchiMate NEXT drops BAT. Now What?
A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of "ArchiMate NEXT" was published. First of a few articles with my thoughts on the development. With a slight sprinkling of history.
AI-generated podcast AI-slopcast
We introduce a new term: "AI-slopcast". This is a podcast that is created by Generative AI and — surprise! — is AI-slop. The victim: one of my own posts.
AI has invented a new language, and added sex to a dull office context
It turns out that AI has created a whole new language. Humans do not speak it, and they may even mistake it for talk about sex. But luckily Generative AI is able to translate it to something humans can understand (and where the sex doesn't show up).
