About this blog
Lyd’s Workbench is where I document what I’m building, testing, learning and occasionally getting wrong with AI.
I’ve been creating with AI for over a year, increasingly exploring not just what the technology can do, but how it fits into real workflows, products, systems and organisations…
This is not a polished publication. It is a working record. So here you will find things such as experiments, prototypes, observations, failures, questions and ideas right as they develop.
Some posts will be substantial. Others may simply capture one useful thing I learned that day.
If you are interested in how AI moves from interesting idea to something that actually works, you are welcome to follow along.
- Day 8: Why I Prefer Working in an IDEI just finished the day’s work feeling really satisfied. I was coding something new, and it came out beautifully. I think a big reason for that was having all my… Read more: Day 8: Why I Prefer Working in an IDE
- Day 7: Pondering About This Blogging ExperimentI’ve been thinking about this daily blogging experiment and whether I should continue with it in its current form. This is all very new to me because I’ve never really… Read more: Day 7: Pondering About This Blogging Experiment
- Day 6: Building My First Public WordPress PluginI’ve been working on my WordPress plugin, but it’s not ready for a public release yet. There are still a few things I need to tweak, and the process has… Read more: Day 6: Building My First Public WordPress Plugin
- Day 5: AI Music and Respect for the CraftIs blatantly taking an artist’s music a form of disrespect? The other day, I was relaxing and watching YouTube videos about music, including performances in one of my favorite genres:… Read more: Day 5: AI Music and Respect for the Craft
- Day 4: Systems Are the Easy Part?A few days ago, I came across a LinkedIn post where someone said that systems were the easy part. That struck me as a strange statement, especially based on my… Read more: Day 4: Systems Are the Easy Part?
- Day 3: Workflows Over FeaturesSome months back, I started getting fascinated by Gen AI applications like Gamma. I kept wondering how people actually build SaaS tools like that, and I wanted to understand the… Read more: Day 3: Workflows Over Features
- Day 2: How Much Decision-Making Should We Hand Over to AI?Today I worked in a Claude session connected to my Meta Ads account because I was trying to troubleshoot an ad that wasn’t getting any impressions. Normally I would investigate… Read more: Day 2: How Much Decision-Making Should We Hand Over to AI?
- Day 1: Automating My BlogToday I wanted to try creating this blog automation. It didn’t actually start out that way. It started with a simple problem: I have things I want to share, but… Read more: Day 1: Automating My Blog