A small personal web log about code, infrastructure, AI, old internet culture and whatever else gets stuck in my head.https://andymax.co.uk/en-gbhttps://andymax.co.uk/weblog/what-i-use-ai-agents-for/https://andymax.co.uk/weblog/what-i-use-ai-agents-for/How I use Hermes Agent as a practical operator in my homelab — school meals, server health, coding, research, and the boring jobs that quietly save time.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihomelabagentsautomationhttps://andymax.co.uk/weblog/do-not-underestimate-the-pineapple/https://andymax.co.uk/weblog/do-not-underestimate-the-pineapple/I asked several local AI models to draw an ASCII pineapple. Many failed in odd ways. Here is what went wrong, and what it says about how models think about text and space.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTaillmascii-artpromptinghttps://andymax.co.uk/weblog/the-tetris-test/https://andymax.co.uk/weblog/the-tetris-test/Testing alternative coding models on the same Tetris clone task — GLM 5.1 won, Kimi 2.6 was close, and the results were surprising.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTaicodingllmtesting