Launches and technical threads. Product announcements, AI engineering practice, and Claude Code workflows.
Updated May 2026.
Product launches
May 2026 - Maibook v0.1.2
16GB Mac support, free to try.
Many of you asked for 16GB Mac support - Maibook v0.1.2 now supports Mac with 16GB RAM! Still free.
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Apr 2026 - Maibook
The flagship launch - on-device community of personalized AI agents.
The second brain is an AI snapshot of you. The third brain is an ongoing AI live streaming feed of your activity. Introducing Maibook - your third brain. A community of personalized AI agents expanding on your every activity, responding to your every request.
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Jan 2026 - Claude Code Viewer
Standalone dark-mode viewer for Claude Code logs. 100% local, single HTML file.
Reading Claude Code logs in the terminal is painful. I got tired of scrolling through raw JSON to debug my agent sessions, so I built a standalone viewer. It turns your CLI history into a full UI. 100% local, single HTML file.
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Dec 2025 - ahai
100% private Mac app using local MLX models - surfaces forgotten ideas across markdown files.
ahai - a 100% private Mac app using local mlx AI models - found my 1541 ideas across 13447 markdown files.
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Sep 2024 - Haixu
Case Study #10 from the Haixu educational comics series.
Haixu Case Study #10 - Butterflies
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Apr 2016 - meon
No-code web apps before “no-code” was a category.
I just launched meon into the wild. Make any web app experience come true, in minutes, no programming needed.
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and earlier games - Smart Run (2013), Pop Rage (2014).
AI engineering
May 2026 - Rich personalized UI with AI - Featured
Four modes for generating personalized AI UI experiences - single-page HTML, web servers, native wrappers, and source-driven auto-generation. The thesis behind Maibook and the rest of MLAI’s lineup.
There are a few modes in which we can generate rich personalized ui experiences with AI: single page HTML (viewers, editors, transformers) with search/sort/filter; web servers for multiple views/file system access; native app that wraps either - for an even richer native feel, and private/local experiences. Rich personalized UI built on files is the future.
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Feb 2026 - Claude Code
Four overlapping plan-and-execute systems - terminology overlap is genuinely confusing. Breakdown of each.
Claude Code now has FOUR overlapping "plan and execute" systems: Plan Mode (built-in), Superpowers Brainstorm (plugin), Superpowers Execute-Plan (subagents + worktrees), Agent Teams (new with Opus 4.6).
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Feb 2026 - Engineering with AI
Engineers have a lot more, not less, work to do with AI doing most traditional coding tasks.
Engineers have a lot more (not less) work to do with AI doing most of traditional coding tasks. There are ∞ choices to make with AI outside of the model itself - choice and sequence of words, models, tool vs pre vs post process.
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Feb 2026 - Operating conjecture
AI can be made to do anything barring domain/physical constraints, given the right context and agency.
I work under the conjecture that AI can be made to do anything barring domain/physical constraints, given the right context and agency. Increasingly less reliant on better models and more on code, natural language (prompt and context) and safe agency (tools).
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May 2026 - Safe agent design
Safer alternative to AI write-access: read-only agents on local files. References Simon Willison’s lethal trifecta.
Maibook was built as a safer alternative to the current AI norm of giving AI unmonitored write access on user's file system and web accounts - read @simonw's lethal trifecta to see why this is dangerous.
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Feb 2026 - “Open” AI tools
Most so-called “open” AI tools and models abuse the word. The MLAI bar: private, local, no sign-in, no cloud by default.
Most so called "open" AI tools and models abuse the word "open" in bad faith. An open AI tool is useful only if it is private, local, requires no sign-in/signup, and doesn't send data to the cloud by default.
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Working with LLMs
May 2026 - Missing manual
How to use AI effectively: pick the best model, invest in the first prompt, debug by fixing the prompt and re-running.
How to use AI effectively - the missing manual.
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Jan 2026 - Best harness
The code + prompt layer matters more than the model in 2026. Small and open models in a good harness rival frontier models for most tasks.
The Best Harness Beats the Best Model.
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Mar 2026 - Opposing views
Three-prompt technique - ask the LLM to argue one view, then the opposite, then resolve both.
Ask llm to convince me of one view, then in a second session ask it to convince me of the opposite view, then in a third session ask it to resolve both opposite viewpoints. Extremely effective.
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Mar 2026 - AI coding mindset
The bitter pill: AI coding agents make the choices of an average developer. Hands off except when something breaks.
Succeeding with AI coding agents needs engineers to swallow a single bitter pill - the agents will most often make the choices of an average developer. We shd be hands off except when something breaks.
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Feb 2026 - Skills as cheatsheets
Use Claude Code skills as on-demand crash courses for any tech stack.
You can get very high quality cheatsheets/crash course/refresher/quick start with idiomatic best practices for a tech component. Just ask Claude Code to create a skill for it, with optional specific preferences.
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Feb 2026 - Brainstorm before plan
Use /superpowers:brainstorm in default mode before plan mode - plan mode is overeager to generate the plan.
TIL how to brainstorm with claude code before planning. Use the official plugin /superpowers:brainstorm. Start with that in default mode (not plan mode, which is overeager to generate the plan and start building!).
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Feb 2026 - CC fork/rewind
Rewind to continue from an earlier point. Fork to branch with current context. Combine for unrelated branches from earlier points.
Claude code fork rewind mini-tutorial: rewind - to continue from an earlier point. fork - use current context, for an unrelated question. fork then rewind - fork from an earlier point.
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Feb 2026 - Manual UI testing
Claude Code handles the hardest part of manual testing - clean repro steps in natural language.
Claude Code helps with the hardest part of manual UI testing - logging proper repro steps. I just do the clicks, tell it what I found in rough natural language, and CC has the codebase loaded, logs the test report nicely with all relevant details.
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Feb 2026 - AI productivity paradox
Why AI assistance can reduce productivity despite expectations. Applies far beyond coding.
One of the most useful articles I have read in a long time. Explains the paradox of why AI assistance reduced productivity, in spite of strongly expecting the opposite. Applies to much more than just vibe coding.
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