Nic Wise - The Chicken Coop

Bit of a corner turn

22 Jan 2026 2 min read Adventures in AI

I kind of feel we (and I) have turned a bit of a corner at work, with a few bits of tooling changes over the past few months. Claude is basically my search

Doubtful Sound

28 Oct 2025 3 min read

Leonie and I, along with our friends Carol and Don, went to Doubtful Sound (via Queenstown, and back via Tekapo). And we had weather. Oh did we have weather. 180kmh (85kt) wind gusts,

Rucord - the vibe coded iOS app

21 Sep 2025 8 min read Adventures in AI

I've had a bit of fun recently trying to Vibe Code - in the original sense of the word - some small apps. And it's mostly worked well, at

Water In, Water Out

28 Aug 2025 7 min read

A friend, who's recently bought a house on tank water (or rather, off main supply) asked this on Blue Sky This is something we've wrestled with over the past

Amp and Agentic coding

03 Aug 2025 2 min read Adventures in AI

I’ve been having a bit of fun with Amp recently. Amp is an agentic software development tool, backed onto Claude 4 Sonnet. You can interact with it via VSCode (and derivatives) or