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This is James

I’m James Johnson. This is my personal website. Here I write, draw, create, experiment.

Latest posts

May 21, 2025 linking Andrej Karpathy — Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
May 7, 2025 linking Investigating Claude’s system prompt (May 2025)
Apr 21, 2025 creating Paradise Lost 2057
Apr 20, 2025 creating Recursive horror (a short story)
Apr 20, 2025 experimenting How do I find out which are the best LLMs to use for different tasks?
Apr 13, 2025 reflecting On being successful
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Highlights

creating
Tiro, a personal note-processing system
I created Tiro, a personal note-processing system designed for fast, structured capture and organization of daily notes.
Apr 3, 2025

reflecting
Q1 2025 quarterly reflection
I've been doing a lot of code creation with AI this quarter, in a sort of structured vibe-coding way. I love it!
Apr 2, 2025

creating
Creating animation process toolset with generative AI
I developed a process for creating animations, using Claude 3.7 to code the tools. It worked well, but now I've thought of a better way to do it.
Mar 28, 2025

creating
Vibe-coded fractal trees with threejs
My son and I created a little application to generate fractal trees. It was great fun and educational too.
Mar 9, 2025

creating
Animation of sparks on the back of my childhood fireplace
I created an animation of sparks on the back of my childhood fireplace
Feb 9, 2025

creating
Maintaining websites with Bear App and Quarto
Making this website enjoyable and fun to edit has been the single most important change I ever have made to my productivity processes.
Jan 23, 2025

creating
A process to semi-automate research using few-shot classification and GPT-4 summation
I spend several weeks or sometimes months researching new topics. In this post I start to create a method to do this more efficiently, but whilst doing so I realise the process is overly complex and come up with a better process.
Dec 11, 2024

illustrating
Hatching practice
I've been experimenting with hatching. I learn that I should do pencil sketches from references and add shadow-lines before inking.
Nov 21, 2024

reflecting
Update, memory
Musings on note books and a failed experiment using ChatGPT to record stuff
Sep 11, 2024

reflecting
Learning by writing essays
Why writing essays is a great way to study and learn
Sep 8, 2024

reflecting
Thinking about coconuts
Why are coconuts so big? Why do they have water in them? Are they a nut or a fruit? What is the white stuff for? Did dinosaurs eat coconuts?
Aug 12, 2024

reflecting
On misremembering and AI hallucinations
Does generative AI really understand things? I used to think not, now I'm not so sure
Jul 10, 2024

reflecting
Self-prompting — leveraging your mental cockney builder
We use prompting techniques with AI. We can also use them on ourselves
Jul 6, 2024

reflecting
The WEIRD bias in generative AI responses
“The responses from generative AI depend on their training data. That data is biased, so the responses are biased.”
Jul 5, 2024

illustrating
Tree of knowledge image
I created an image of the Tree of Knowledge, based in part on sacred geometry
Apr 26, 2024

illustrating
My seal
King Charles has a seal, and I wanted one for myself. So I set about designing one.
Mar 14, 2024

reflecting
We need to talk about your information diet
In this essay I look at how we have been programmed by evolution to enjoy cute kitten pictures on Instagram and dumb rage-bait videos on Twitter. We are making ourselves dumber, is there anything we can do about it?
Feb 23, 2024

illustrating
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell image
This work is inspired by *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell* by William Blake
Feb 21, 2024

creating
William Blake timeline — an information visualization experiment
I created a visual timeline of William Blake's life
Feb 2, 2024

reflecting
Gods of the visual essay
Here I list some of the people that I think write the most inspiring visual essays
Nov 29, 2023

reflecting
AI is coming for your job
How to survive the coming AI job apocalypse
May 10, 2023
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