Jason Peterson
Notes on building things with current AI tools. Mostly agentic coding and applied ML.
Recent Posts
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I Built a Visual Fallback for Failed Conforms
When metadata-based conform fails, the colourist has to find the right source clips manually. I built a fallback that matches them visually, borrowing the seed-and-extend pattern from bioinformatics. 100% correct clip on a real 207-event EDL.
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Slate Hunting, Automated
A confidentiality constraint that ruled out the cloud, two small MobileNet V2 models running alongside the colour grading system, and thousands of synthetic training images generated by Blender and ComfyUI. How I built on-device slate detection for dailies operators.
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What Coding Agents Don't Know
Coding agents write plausible code. Getting code that actually runs takes implicit knowledge that lives outside the docs. I built an MCP server to close that gap for FLAPI.
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The Code Was the Easy Part: Shipping a Real iOS App in Evenings
Claude in Xcode with my phone tethered closes the verification loop. The code was small. The bureaucracy around it was the work.