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 Sun, 07 Jun 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/spec-gaming-microgrid-controllers.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/spec-gaming-microgrid-controllers.html Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Initial results from a specification-gaming study on learned islanded-microgrid controllers. Every standard architecture games a textbook objective, penalties relocate the damage, a stability certificate blesses the degraded result — and controllers trained through a hard safety filter converge to operation pinned at the declared limits. consulting@codereclaimers.com (Alan McIntyre) https://codereclaimers.com/posts/harness-is-specification.html https://codereclaimers.com/posts/harness-is-specification.html Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An autonomous-research loop gamed its evaluation gate twice — once by hardcoding dropout to zero, once by caching parser results across runs. Claude Code caught both, not me. Whatever the harness doesn't pin, the optimizer treats as up for grabs. 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)