Writing & research

Notes from the workbench.

Research journals, technical field notes and unfinished ideas. Written to clarify the thinking, not just present the answer.

Thinking aloud

Thinking aloud 22 December 2025

Vibe Typer Review: Why Voice-to-Text is the Senior Engineer's Secret Weapon

How high-bandwidth voice input and model chaining with Gemini 3 Flash and Opus 4.5 create a robust development workflow.

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The archive

More ideas and explorations.

10 entries across software, data, probability and the spaces between them.

Data notes

Australian Property

A brief exploration of property in Australia.

6 October 2025

Applied AI

Building a Product-to-Category Classifier

How to utilise the best of LLM chains, embeddings, and low-friction vector searching.

18 December 2024

Thinking aloud

Balancing Nassim Taleb's 'Antifragility Tinkering Intelligence' with Naval Ravikant's 'Think Deeply Before You Act'

WIP - placeholder idea for discerning between 'tinkering and theorising' and 'meditating before acting'.

17 December 2024

Applied AI

Large Language Model Tool Design: Functional or OOP?

Exploring the paradigms of functional and object-oriented programming in the context of designing tools and chains for large language models, and considering which paradigm best suits this purpose.

16 December 2024

Applied AI

AI Agents

The philology and techno-philosophy of AI Agents.

17 November 2024

Applied AI

Jack Hales AI Agents Research Journal - 2024

AI Agent thoughts and research from Jack Hales within 2024.

17 November 2024

Thinking aloud

Pathways & Space

Pathways, and how I aim to ensure I leave space for anything.

17 November 2024

Research

Jack Hales Prime Number Research Journal - 2024

A brief overview of the renewed research I've been doing on prime numbers in 2024.

23 October 2024

Research

Prime Number Research

Prime number generators using brute-forcing equations...

7 January 2022