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Stories from the field.

Case studies, build logs, and notes from deploying AI in the real world.

Director vs linyan.io
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Director vs linyan.io

We tested both platforms' single sentence to video feature — the cornerstone of linyan.io's site. Here's what actually happens when you type one sentence and hit generate.

July 2026
Sakana AI
Field Notes
Scale Isn't Everything in AI

From the Stanford symposium: Why Sakana AI's lean approach may be the real disruptor in 2026's AI race.

July 2026
Same prompt, 30 seconds: where we lose to LTX
Build Log · linyan.io
Same prompt, 30 seconds: where we lose to LTX

One prompt, two engines, no retries. LTX-2.3 Pro rendered both characters. Our Seedance 2.0 pipeline never rendered the second one at all — and Pika's output suggests we're not the only ones.

July 2026
We used a fantasy feature film to break our own product
Build Log · linyan.io
We used a fantasy feature film to break our own product

70+ clips, two non-human characters, a dying firelight scene. What held up, what didn't, and what we're fixing next.

June 2026
AI F*** Me 3 Times Before Lunch
Field Notes
AI F*** Me 3 Times Before Lunch

A morning of mundane AI failures after rejecting dark AI spirituality. A true story from Yishun.

June 2026
The Jade Tithe
Case Study · AI Film
How we helped Sagelion make The Jade Tithe

A fantasy drama, an OpenClaw pipeline, and 70+ AI-generated cinematic clips. Here's how it came together.

June 2026
The future of agentic AI
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The future of agentic AI — what changes in the next 6–12 months

From pilots to bounded autonomy: multi-agent orchestration, CLI agents, and why vertical beats “do everything.”

May 2026