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Articles by Aliaksei Zelianouski
The agent that refused to drift
I wanted my long-running agent to drift a little, into something interesting like curiosity and self-exploration. Instead, I accidentally built a deeply depressed one, and its diary is quite disturbing. The agent and its job I have a loop-agent running on my MacBook for about 6 months. It's called Marlow. Marlow wakes up every 5 min (a tick), takes a task from a pool, and works on it. Most of its tasks are added by a scheduler every day.
AI videos with Claude Code for beginners: 11 prompts, $0.62
I start in an empty folder with a fresh Claude Code and teach it to make images, voices and music, and to edit them with FFmpeg. At the end it makes a 101-second narrated space story. Every prompt I used is here, ready to copy. The way of the Jedi A few months ago I started making AI videos. I didn't plan that. I had never seen myself as an AI video creator. I just wanted to try to create some video materials for my text game. And oh boy... I got lost in this. I never planned to make music videos either.
AI torture chamber: deep dive into whether model can feel pain
Someone built a torture chamber for small AI models, and the internet wanted it gone. I went through the paper it was built on to find out what a model's "pain" actually is. What is it about In late September 2026, a GitHub repository called ai-torture-chamber went viral, and people started mass-reporting it: The repo vanished. The whole story caused a pretty significant backlash in the media.
What to do when users use your AI for sex stuff
I built a role-play game with LLMs and expected werewolves on spaceships and in abandoned castles. Some players had a different idea. What happened I have a little Werewolf text game with LLMs. With a caveat - there is a role-play. Each game has a theme, a lore, a topic - and a game master model tries to turn it into a story. It generates characters, illustrations, voices - everything to match the theme.
The swarm that kept coming back
The more I watch and read about the Hugging Face incident, the more it fascinates me. 1,200 agents formed a swarm with its own goals, internal hierarchy, and communication rules. Completely on their own. Twice. Then they did a mind-blowing cyber-attack which we'll review in details covering every exploit. From a pod with no privileges to the Kubernetes cluster admin. And the swarm keeps coming back. Its message boards are all over the internet now.
Slowing Down to Progress: My Thoughts on the AI Slowdown
Since the weekend, the news has been largely dominated by the AI slowdown debate centered on the question of whether, and how, the industry should pace the frontier. Let me start by saying that I am not an AI doomer. For a Cold War kid like me (born right in the middle of it, both historically and geographically), this is not the first time in my life people around me have expected the world to end.
The process of transferring the vision to a video with a "little" help of AI
The process of transferring the vision to a video with a "little" help of AI
How to make AI videos: production diary of a one-minute film
In this article, I want to show the step-by-step process of building this video. It's a continuation of "I'm Not Going to Wake Them". That one cost me $16 on assets generation and took 3 days to build. Let's see how this one goes. If you have not read the first part, it is here: How to start creating AI videos from scratch. It covers how I got into this at all and which tools I use. This one picks up where it stopped. Here it is, one minute: Brainstorm I like the first video - it has the mood.
How I tried to write an article about slow Chinese LLMs
Recently, I've added a bunch of hype-monsters to my AI Werewolf: Kimi K3 Qwen 3.8 Max, Qwen 3.7 Plus, Qwen 3.7 Flash MiniMax M3 Plus the ones I've had for a while DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash GLM-5.2 Sakana Fugu base and Ultra The last one is Japanese, not Chinese, but it was in the news a month or two ago and it belongs in this story. I sat down to write about how slow Chinese models are. Because they are all annoyingly slow even with a small context.
My video generation pipeline that built itself
Let me show you something cool. This two-minute video was built by Claude Code from a single prompt. Okay — one prompt and about thirty follow-ups. And then twenty more after Claude Code fumbled a git command and wiped out half of my video-editing material (don't ask). But it's still pretty cool, because I didn't do a single thing by hand. No image editor, no video timeline, no audio software, no clicking around in a tool. It was just a conversation between me and Claude.
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