https://codereclaimers.com/blog.html Notes from the workshop — rescued codebases, numerical methods, AI workflow experiments, and the occasional post-mortem. Written by Alan McIntyre at CodeReclaimers, LLC. en-us Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) © 2014–2026 CodeReclaimers, LLC. All rights reserved. handwritten + profile.yaml https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://codereclaimers.com/posts/harness-is-specification.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/harness-is-specification.html Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A nanoGPT optimization loop accepted a one-line patch that quietly disabled dropout. Whatever the harness doesn't pin, the optimizer treats as up for grabs — and the catches keep landing at the friction point, not the artifact. consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/sketch-reconstruction-sprint.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/sketch-reconstruction-sprint.html Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Twenty-five experiments across three days with Claude Code and Gemini Deep Think optimizing a sketch reconstruction pipeline — and what the rejection pattern revealed about detection-selection architectures. consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/gamma-corpus-personality-model.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/gamma-corpus-personality-model.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Twenty years of email, forum posts, and chat logs become a personality model — and the recursive absurdity of using it to write about itself. consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/embedding-support-agent.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/embedding-support-agent.html Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Embedding a Recursive support agent on your website is as simple as pasting an iframe snippet. A step-by-step guide covering domain allowlisting, sizing, positioning, and troubleshooting. consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/recursive-origin-story.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/recursive-origin-story.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How a YouTube video about AI resume assistants led to building Recursive, a platform that gives small businesses self-improving AI support agents. consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/openclaw-operations.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/openclaw-operations.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A practical guide to running OpenClaw: security monitoring, cron job configuration, agent behavior observations, and maintenance procedures. (Part 3 of the OpenClaw series.) consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/openclaw-local-vs-cloud-models.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/openclaw-local-vs-cloud-models.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Comparing local LLMs against cloud models for AI tool-calling in OpenClaw — testing Qwen, Gemma, Kimi, and Claude Haiku on complex tool schemas. (Part 2 of the OpenClaw series.) consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/openclaw-vm-setup.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/openclaw-vm-setup.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up the OpenClaw AI assistant in an isolated Multipass VM with Ollama integration and Discord bot configuration. (Part 1 of the OpenClaw series.) consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/sketchbridge-alpha.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/sketchbridge-alpha.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The alpha release of SketchBridge, a desktop application for transferring 2D sketches between FreeCAD, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, and Inventor. consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre)