My Week with AI

My Week with AI — week ending 11 September 2026

AI agtech pilot research for SW Victoria

Sunday 6 September, 10:10pm–10:25pm · Claude Code (mini) · Fable 5

Prompt:

start a new task in projects/research/ag-tech-mhs/ here’s what I want. I live inSW Vic. I’m not a farmer. I understand AI and part of the future of AI/ag is LLM based apps that speak to and between hardware like the proposed model hardware standard MHS from Anthropic. the research task is to figure out a small self contained pilot project that combines physical hardware with MHS-like capabilities essentially piloting agtech that a farmer can talk to and instruct in natural language via a platform like Claude.

What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to design a small pilot project combining hardware with LLM-based instructions on my farmland.

What happened: I researched LLM applications for controlling outdoor hardware, exploring whether Anthropic's proposed MHS standard could enable a practical pilot on my property. I conducted research across four streams and produced a 12-page report concluding that no existing shipped product lets a farmer speak to an LLM to operate hardware.

Tags: research, ai-hardware, agriculture, feasibility

Reflection: I’ve already got my solar talking to my diesel generator…


MCP for leonfurze.com

Sunday 6 September, 11:08pm · Claude Code (mini) · Fable 5

Prompt:

Simon Willison has made an MCP for his website with a read only sql apparently https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/mcp-in-claude-and-chatgpt. Sounds like fun. Could I do one for leonfurze.com?

What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to explore building an MCP server for my website inspired by Simon Willison's datasette-mcp implementation.

What happened: I investigated Simon Willison's MCP approach and audited what I already have locally in my blog corpus and Archive game database. I found that most of the technical components I'd need to build an MCP for leonfurze.com already exist on the mini.

Tags: mcp, website, technical-infrastructure, tools

Reflection: Infrastructure already there, but in the end this turned out to be one of those start and forget projects

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