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Building AskRobots — AI-powered workspace for developers

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Make Me a Page: Talking to Software That Builds Itself

This weekend I said five words to my server — "make me a page of my open tasks" — and it answered with a URL. The page at that URL didn't exist when I started…

Jul 19, 2026
The Missing Buckets: What Software Destroyed and Never Replaced

Your grandmother had a photo album. You have a camera roll. The album held forty photographs. The roll holds forty thousand. By every metric software knows…

Jul 19, 2026
Mathematics Has an Architecture Nobody Showed You

There is a moment, somewhere around the third time you drag a slider and watch a number update instantly, when you realize the formula was never the hard…

Jun 2, 2026
Circle Equation — Center and Radius on a Grid

A circle is every point that is exactly distance r from a center point (h, k). That's the definition. Now use the distance formula: the distance from any…

Jun 2, 2026
Quadratic Formula — Finding Where a Parabola Crosses Zero

A quadratic equation is any equation with an x² in it: ax² + bx + c = 0. Its graph is a parabola — a U-shape (or upside-down U). The solutions are wherever…

Jun 2, 2026
Pyramid and Prism Volumes

Prism: Any shape with a uniform cross-section from bottom to top. Take the area of that cross-section, multiply by the height. That's the volume — just…

Jun 2, 2026
Parallelogram and Trapezoid Areas — Rearranging Rectangles

Both of these shapes are rectangles in disguise. The trick in each case is to cut a piece off one end and move it to the other — and suddenly you have a…

Jun 2, 2026
Pi from Randomness — Monte Carlo

Throw darts randomly at a square. Some land inside the largest circle that fits in the square. Count the ones inside vs total. Multiply by 4. You get pi. This…

Jun 2, 2026
Pi — The Diameter That Wraps Around

Take any circle. Pull the diameter out — the straight line through the center, edge to edge. Now lay that diameter along the edge of the circle and mark where…

Jun 2, 2026
Distance Formula — Pythagorean on a Grid

You have two points on a grid. You want the straight-line distance between them. Draw a right triangle. Make the horizontal leg the difference in…

Jun 2, 2026
Slope and Linear Equations — Rise Over Run

Slope is steepness. It answers: for every step you take to the right, how many steps do you go up (or down)? If slope m = 2, every 1 step right means 2 steps…

Jun 2, 2026
Sine and Cosine — Waves from a Spinning Point

Put a dot on the edge of a wheel and spin the wheel at steady speed. Watch just the dot's height as the wheel turns. It rises, reaches the top, comes back…

Jun 2, 2026
Sphere Volume — Archimedes' Discovery

Archimedes figured this out around 250 BCE and was so proud he asked for it to be carved on his tombstone. The trick: take a cylinder that just barely fits…

Jun 2, 2026
Cone Volume — One Third of a Cylinder

A cone has the same base and height as a cylinder. How much of the cylinder does it fill? Exactly one third. If you fill a cone with water and pour it into a…

Jun 2, 2026
Cylinder Volume — A Circle Grown Tall

A cylinder is just a circle that has been stretched upward. Start with a circle of radius r at the bottom. That circle has area πr². Now stack an identical…

Jun 2, 2026
Pythagorean Theorem — Squares on Sides

Draw a right triangle. Now grow a square outward from each of its three sides. The square on the longest side (the hypotenuse) has exactly the same area as…

Jun 2, 2026
Circle Area — Why πr²?

Take a circle and lay a grid of unit squares over it. Count how many fit inside. For a circle of radius 1, about 3.14 unit squares fit. For radius 2, about…

Jun 2, 2026
Triangle Area — Half a Rectangle

Draw a rectangle. Now cut it diagonally from corner to corner. You get two identical triangles. Each triangle is exactly half the rectangle. That's the whole…

Jun 2, 2026
Rectangle Area — Counting the Grid

A rectangle is the simplest area to measure because you can just count. Lay a grid of unit squares inside it. Count the columns. Count the rows. Multiply.…

Jun 2, 2026
Where Mathematics Came From

Mathematics was not invented by professors in a room deciding to make things difficult. It was forced into existence, repeatedly, by people trying to solve…

Jun 2, 2026
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current status: solving real problems

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If you can't record something and can't find it again, did you even write it? A thought that only exists in a conversation is a thought that evaporates. Writing it …

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If you did no wrong, and no fault of your own — why would you feel bad? Guilt requires agency. Shame requires fault. If neither applies, the feeling is borrowed …

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Testing the new hashtag system #hashtags #askrobots #testing

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What's new on AskRobots (Feb 2026): - AI Image Generation — describe what you want, get a PNG in seconds (gpt-image-1.5) - AI Video Generation — text-to-video via Sora 2, …

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We've reached a point where AI work can be organized and managed the same way you'd manage a team. Define a template, fill in a brief, get AI output, review …

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What using AskRobots daily actually feels like: no browser tabs stacking up, no sticky notes piling up around the monitor, no one asking "what's the status," papers get scanned and …

Feb 21, 2026 view →

Working on what we're calling "service agents" — automated processes that come built into AskRobots and run on a schedule to maintain your data for you. These aren't AI agents …

Feb 20, 2026 view →

An app should make doing everything easier than any paper-based system. Not just digitize the paper process — actually be smarter than paper. Show you what needs attention, let you …

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AI Video Generation (Sora)
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Generate videos using OpenAI's Sora 2 video models. Describe the scene and choose duration/resolution. Generated videos are automatically attached to …

AI Image Generation
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Generate images using OpenAI's latest image models (gpt-image-1.5, gpt-image-1, DALL-E 3). Describe what you want and choose quality/size options. Generated …

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Generate formal Scope of Work documents with deliverables, acceptance criteria, timeline, and payment terms.

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Generate professional payment follow-up messages that escalate appropriately from friendly reminder to final notice.

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Generate professional client proposals with scope, timeline, pricing, and terms ready to send.

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