Maai & AI

A collection of notes and articles at various stages of development.

Articles

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Field Notes

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Thematic-TAO: a three-pass method for post analysis

Extracting meaningful entities and relations, combining thematic analysis with TAO topic mapping in three passes.
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Claude Code: what's new for the garden

Five short experiments validating new Claude features (March 2026 release) on the digital garden. Practical demos for conversation designers.
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Experiment 2: thematic analysis with 1M context

Testing the 1M context window by loading the entire garden and running thematic analysis, comparing fresh analysis against graph-augmented analysis.
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Experiment 1: scheduled garden health check

Testing Claude Code's new scheduled tasks feature by automating weekly garden health checks.
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Thematic analysis of the garden: fresh reading

Seven themes and one emerging pattern discovered by loading all 244 garden files into a single context window with no prior structure.
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Thematic analysis of the garden: graph-augmented

What happens when you start from embeddings instead of reading? Comparing cluster-based discovery against the fresh thematic analysis.

Seeds

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Reading notes: bacteria to AI

Reading notes on cognitive assemblages, anthropocentrism, and the case for extending cognition beyond human consciousness, from bacteria to AI.
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A reading log for Bacteria to AI

Some kind of reading log for Bacteria to AI, and perhaps even a reminder to actually read.
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My changing role in an ultrasmall development team

Being PO, scrum master, prompt designer, tester, eval writer and UX designer in a team of 3 means rethinking roles and processes on a daily, almost hourly basis.
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The return of the button

Claude Code is reintroducing structured, constrained input: buttons, numbered options, limited choices. Which is actually IVR. And that might be exactly right.
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Thematic analysis as interaction model and research method

What if we modeled human-AI interaction on thematic analysis rather than conversation? And what if we used that same method to discover themes in a knowledge garden?
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Chatbots without AI

Can a chatbot-style UI work without generative AI, using decision trees, hyperlinking, and serendipity instead?

Weblinks

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Videos

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Designing for doubt My favorite AI tools - 2025 edition Taking Deepseek for a testdrive: so what's the status of Taiwan? I joined NotebookLM as a podcast guest!