Travis Luckenbaugh

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The Fabled LLM

June 12, 2026

Fable launched earlier this week. Fable feels better than Opus message for message. Not a massive jump, but an incremental upgrade. However, there are problems.

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Crimes Against Math

January 25, 2026

Mark Twain once said, "there are lies, damned lies, and statistics." Consider the humorous (if absurd) example of Extrapolating from XKCD. Strange things happen at one over zero; your number of active husbands goes up infinity% the day you get married.

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Prefix Naming and Compatibility

July 30, 2025

The annual summer of re-development continues as people rush to fix iOS beta bugs and adopt new APIs while they still have existing users to support. Standing with one foot in each camp means cutting against the grain of Apple’s “we only look forward” philosophy. Recent discussion online reminded me of a useful trick old enough it risks being forgotten.

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5E Character Creator

May 23, 2025

I hacked together a tool to count up points, rather than counting down from 27. I wrote it for a friend's Obojima campaign with 0th level 12-point characters.

Update 6/8: Added support for stat points beyond 8-15

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