Ian Keough
@iankeough.com
Founder of http://Hypar.io. Father of Dynamo. I make buildings with computers. Future astronaut.
Super interesting that the day after the Astra Blender demos, I tried dropping a bunch of furniture examples (images, websites) on Claude and it would generate python to create glbs. Tried again yesterday and it now refuses to do it for a "specific protected design". 1/
September 18, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Super interesting that the day after the Astra Blender demos, I tried dropping a bunch of furniture examples (images, websites) on Claude and it would generate python to create glbs. Tried again yesterday and it now refuses to do it for a "specific protected design". 1/
Update: this is still ridiculously hard. This has consumed at least 5 hours of today. That's with Claude creating an instruction book that brings together everything I need to get this working on a mac mini. The up side is that I have a running PDS. Still need to migrate.
Decentralization of social media is a great idea. But if @atproto.com PDS' are the way, it's going to need to be A LOT easier. Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get a PDS up and running. It was not fun...
August 23, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Update: this is still ridiculously hard. This has consumed at least 5 hours of today. That's with Claude creating an instruction book that brings together everything I need to get this working on a mac mini. The up side is that I have a running PDS. Still need to migrate.
The "Department of War" ladies and gentlemen.
May 8, 2026 at 4:50 PM
The "Department of War" ladies and gentlemen.
I'm going to write a book, to be published on the day of my death, called "How to know everything: Part 1".
April 24, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I'm going to write a book, to be published on the day of my death, called "How to know everything: Part 1".
I guess my Copilot for business subscription buys me...honesty?
April 20, 2026 at 6:00 AM
I guess my Copilot for business subscription buys me...honesty?
I’m sure someone at Pokemon Go HQ is like “it’s a great way to get outside and be with other people!“ But every day there’s a roving band of zombie-like thirty-somethings in the park near my house shuffling around in total silence staring at their phones.
March 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I’m sure someone at Pokemon Go HQ is like “it’s a great way to get outside and be with other people!“ But every day there’s a roving band of zombie-like thirty-somethings in the park near my house shuffling around in total silence staring at their phones.
This just in...Important things need to be designed carefully. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by 'Gen-AI assisted changes,' report claims — recent 'high blast radius' incidents stir up changes for code approval
Amazon says it's a routine meeting
www.tomshardware.com
March 11, 2026 at 3:07 AM
This just in...Important things need to be designed carefully. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Decentralization of social media is a great idea. But if @atproto.com PDS' are the way, it's going to need to be A LOT easier. Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get a PDS up and running. It was not fun...
October 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Decentralization of social media is a great idea. But if @atproto.com PDS' are the way, it's going to need to be A LOT easier. Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get a PDS up and running. It was not fun...
There is an inverse correlation between the number of accreditations in your LinkedIn bio and the probability of me adding you to my network.
October 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
There is an inverse correlation between the number of accreditations in your LinkedIn bio and the probability of me adding you to my network.
People with lots of friends live longer. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging | Cornell Chronicle
Research shows the biological aging process can be slowed by strong social connections and support.
news.cornell.edu
September 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
People with lots of friends live longer. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Using ChatGPT to parse legal docs. Translating complex language to simple language has been the only compelling use case for me with LLMs. Whether it's legal-ese to english, or english to code.
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Using ChatGPT to parse legal docs. Translating complex language to simple language has been the only compelling use case for me with LLMs. Whether it's legal-ese to english, or english to code.
I've been working on BIM for 25 years. I still don't know what LOD 200 means.
August 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I've been working on BIM for 25 years. I still don't know what LOD 200 means.
"I know you have a free tier, but can I also try all the paid features for free? $25 a month is a little hard for me to justify to try your software that *designs buildings*."
August 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"I know you have a free tier, but can I also try all the paid features for free? $25 a month is a little hard for me to justify to try your software that *designs buildings*."
All Hypar support calls are answered by a trained professional.
August 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
All Hypar support calls are answered by a trained professional.
I might have finally found a use case for ChatGPT. One of my Hypar teammates told me yesterday that no one reads the docs or stack overflow any more. They just ask ChatGPT how to *do the thing*. I just tried this with an obscure git command and it worked!
August 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I might have finally found a use case for ChatGPT. One of my Hypar teammates told me yesterday that no one reads the docs or stack overflow any more. They just ask ChatGPT how to *do the thing*. I just tried this with an obscure git command and it worked!
Replace "code" with "model" (as in BIM), and this works for architecture as well. The worst possible future is one in which you have people generating more stuff and they don't know how any of it works. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea'
: They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?
www.theregister.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Replace "code" with "model" (as in BIM), and this works for architecture as well. The worst possible future is one in which you have people generating more stuff and they don't know how any of it works. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
Hypar is like if Lego and Canva had a baby.
August 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hypar is like if Lego and Canva had a baby.
I think someone needs to make SketchUp, but for buildings.
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I think someone needs to make SketchUp, but for buildings.
This articulates some of my misgivings about the AGI discussion. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
Opinion | Silicon Valley Needs to Stop Obsessing Over Superhuman A.I.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This articulates some of my misgivings about the AGI discussion. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
Possibly original shingles at Chillon Castle and their modern counterparts.
August 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Possibly original shingles at Chillon Castle and their modern counterparts.
Waiting for them to reboot the computer that flushes the toilets on this plane. The literal definition of enshitification.
August 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Waiting for them to reboot the computer that flushes the toilets on this plane. The literal definition of enshitification.
In the chapel at Chillon Castle there is a wooden statue of St. George slaying the dragon (standing without arm). It is unattributed. I walked in the room and said to myself “That’s Riemenschneider!”. Compare with his St. George (riding the horse).
August 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
In the chapel at Chillon Castle there is a wooden statue of St. George slaying the dragon (standing without arm). It is unattributed. I walked in the room and said to myself “That’s Riemenschneider!”. Compare with his St. George (riding the horse).
The example of the building generator is interesting. We talk about the possibility of AI creating tools for designing buildings all the time at Hypar, where we make software for actually designing buildings. Some thoughts on AI, craft, and empathy 1/
I had access to GPT-5. I think it is a very big deal as it is very smart & just does stuff for you
This is “make a procedural brutalist building creator where i can drag and edit buildings in cool ways" & "make it better" a bunch. I touched no code
Full post: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-j...
This is “make a procedural brutalist building creator where i can drag and edit buildings in cool ways" & "make it better" a bunch. I touched no code
Full post: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-j...
August 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The example of the building generator is interesting. We talk about the possibility of AI creating tools for designing buildings all the time at Hypar, where we make software for actually designing buildings. Some thoughts on AI, craft, and empathy 1/
Generative video models are bad. Except when The Onion uses them. And then they are soooo good.
Meat Prices Skyrocket After Cow Smashing Machine Gets All Beefed Up
Meat Prices Skyrocket After Cow Smashing Machine Gets All Beefed Up
YouTube video by The Onion
youtube.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Generative video models are bad. Except when The Onion uses them. And then they are soooo good.