20 Builders, No Slides
20 Builders, No Slides
MARCH 29, 2026
Got invited to a dinner during SXSW. Twenty or so AI builders from various disciplines, all seated at Juniper on East 1st downtown. Hosted by Google DeepMind and AI Tinkerers — and I'm pretty sure Google picked up the check for everyone.
No presentations, no slides. Just a room full of developers talking shop over good food. That's the kind of event I'll always say yes to.
I still need to work on talking to more people at these things. I tend to grab a few folks in proximity and get cooking — deep into a thread before I've even looked around the room. It's a pattern I'm aware of. Not fixing it anytime soon.
Good time. Good people. Grateful to Google and the AI Tinkerers group for putting it together and picking up the tab. That's the SXSW I'll show up for.
AI Consistent Images Examples
More experiments in consistent image workflows and autogenerating text with images. My goal with this was to create a visual style (something anime looking) with a consistent main character in a variety of situations. And tie it all together with a personalized birthday message.
BAGEL Text-to-Image Model Disappoints ... but there is more
Testing BAGEL, ByteDance's unified 7B parameter model that combines text-to-image generation, image editing, and image understanding in a single architecture.
LawBot 3D Model
I really liked the cartoon logo for iDisclose and their LawBot identity. Having the privilege to work with them years ago on a website and an explainer video, it was fun to work on taking their 2D character and bringing it into 3D.
Brooklyn Cyclones
We had an opportunity to be a part of what is now known as the greatest minor league baseball promotion night of all time. It was also the first time ScreenDUET was used for an in park event instead of just supporting TV viewers.
Longhorn Network in Austin
10 years ago the Longhorn Network was started. With all of the changes coming to the Texas Longhorns and joining the SEC, I dug out this great photo of the Exhilent crew sitting on the Longhorn Network set. A team of absolute geniuses that I miss very much.