Programming Toys
Small pages, each built to break one misconception about programming with AI. No install, no account, no network — nothing leaves any page. Part of the Speak Software series.
Kills: “the AI knows what I meant” — one vague brief, three valid products; add spec lines, watch the space collapse.
Pairs with Lab 3 — Say What You Mean
Kills: “it thinks like me” — watch next-word choice happen, dice and all, with the dial from boring to unhinged.
Pairs with Lab 1 — Hello, Department of One
Kills: “the demo is the product” — a shiny one-shot that really works, until you let real users in.
Pairs with Lab 2 — The Demo Illusion
Kills: “it sees what I see” — every mistake traces to a fact that lived only in your head. It never heard you.
Pairs with Labs 6 & 7
Kills: “fluent = true” — grade eight equally confident claims, meet your score, and find out what fluency is worth.
Pairs with Lab 7 — Trust, Then Verify
Kills: “small change, small work” — guess how big six ‘quick ones’ really are; the inside decides, and you can't see the inside.
Pairs with Lab 9 — The Last 20%