Jason Peterson Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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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, small on-device models trained mostly on synthetic data because no real slate dataset comes close to big enough, and a dense inference pipeline that pins the clapper-shut frame and locks separately-recorded production sound to it, frame-accurate. How I built automatic slate detection and audio sync for dailies.
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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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Universal Memory Is Working
A quick update on my universal memory MCP. It's become one of my most-used tools.
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Second Brain, First Principles
You don't need a subscription to build a universal memory store that just works and is LLM-agnostic. Here's how I built mine.
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Memory vs CLAUDE.md
Claude Code has two ways to remember things between sessions. Here's what goes where, and a trick for moving context between projects.
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The Practice: Using AI as a Mentor for Morning Journaling
I journal by hand every morning, then let AI read my handwriting, track my goals, and surface patterns I can't see myself. Here's how and why.
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Making AI Music Scores with Gemini, Kling, and Claude Code
Google shipped music generation in Gemini via Lyria 3. I used it to score three AI-generated film scenes. Here's what worked.
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I Ran My Own Multi-Agent Swarm in 60 Seconds
Grok shipped a multi-agent swarm. I built one in my terminal in 60 seconds. Here's what happened when I blind-tested the results.
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I Asked My Computer Where the Space Station Was
I set up an MCP server in ten minutes, for free, without writing a line of code. Here's what that means and why it matters.
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The Walled Garden Problem
LinkedIn walls off its job data behind premium tiers while Indeed ships an open MCP server. Here's what that means for AI-powered job searching.
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She Has Four Brand Deals, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and She Doesn't Exist
I created a fictional AI influencer with four brand partnerships in one afternoon for under five dollars. Here's exactly how.
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Voice Input for Claude Code
Claude Code has no voice input. Anthropic closed the request. But there's a free workaround that takes two minutes to set up.
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The AI Starter Kit
A 20-minute setup guide for Claude Pro, VS Code, and Claude Code — everything you need to follow along with my projects.
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I Built a 120-Image AI Influencer Pipeline for $4.80
Four brand partnerships. 120 AI-generated photos. One fictional influencer, her dog, and a $4.80 fal.ai bill. This is the entire pipeline — what worked, what didn't, and why it matters.
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Visual UIs Are Now Possible in MCP Servers
MCP servers can now render interactive UIs directly in Claude Desktop's chat window. Not just text responses—actual HTML with JavaScript, maps, charts, anything.
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Did You Know CLIP Works as an AI Image Detector?
OpenAI's CLIP model was trained to match images with text descriptions. But it also works remarkably well at detecting AI-generated images. No fine-tuning required—just extract embeddings and add a simple classifier.
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From Prototype to Production: Building a Multimodal Video Search Engine
Expanding an afternoon hack into a production-like multimodal video search engine with CLIP, Whisper, and ArcFace — containerized with Docker and powered by Postgres+pgvector.
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Pac-Man, Shakey the Robot, and Von Neumann Walk Into a Maze
Seeing Google's Doodle tribute to Pac-Man recently sent me spiraling down a nostalgia rabbit hole. It reminded me of the 80s and scrounging for quarters and a MOOC I took in what now feels like ancient history in AI terms.
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Building a Rubik's Cube Solver: A Primer on Claude Skills
Got a scrambled Rubik's Cube gathering dust on your desk? I built a Claude Skill that solves it from six photos. This project became a perfect way to understand how Claude Skills work.
