Artcraft, Mindscaper, et al: Can we really just vibecode creative software?

Over the past couple days, massive hype has built up around Artcraft, a collection of literal clones of Adobe's CC, Microsoft Office and other apps, entirely vibecoded and open source. Artists and creative folks battered by subscriptions costing hundreds and thousands of dollars a year finally smell relief that's not the poorly designed open source… Continue reading Artcraft, Mindscaper, et al: Can we really just vibecode creative software?

Make Art, not Content – Or: AI Slop doesn’t threaten Artists, Capitalism does

As we look around ourselves, more and more of the internet is being spammed with AI content. Human content creators are ringing the alarm bells; their livelihood is under threat, their content which they spent hours making being drowned under a sea of quick-and-easy generators of text, images and videos. Yet, as new as AI… Continue reading Make Art, not Content – Or: AI Slop doesn’t threaten Artists, Capitalism does

Getting Ollama to run properly

Today I tried to do something which apparently is silly: Use Ollama on my Windows machine to run gpt-oss:20b, use it in VSCode's Copilot-chat, and also use it on WSL for my Linux (web) projects. This is, apparently, difficult. To document my findings instead of a "nvm fixed it", here's the stuff I did: Tell… Continue reading Getting Ollama to run properly