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Should I be doing this? Doing it anyway.

Nobody handed me the foundation, so I build it myself, one chicken, one garden bed and one AI tool at a time. I try it first, figure out what actually works, and write it down in plain language so you can skip the hard part.

Pick a doorway Read the origin story

Six years of chickens · Every room, some twice · Six years in a headset

Drawing of a blond woman working on AI projects at her laptop, with a VR headset pushed up on her head, a chicken on the desk, a clapperboard, a film strip and two AI chat bubbles CU

The long version

The website is where the research lives. Here is what I read, here is why I bought it, you decide.

One life, five doorways

This is the shop window. Each doorway is where the full version lives.

Chickens, a garden I'm not good at yet, and a pressure canner I've never dared open. It's never too late to learn. 162 posts → Two dogs, two cats, one house. Big Cat rules the roost. Welcome to my chaos — and to everything we bought that didn't work. 7 posts → Homeschool, kitchen science, drawings and inventions — mostly from her point of view. The ones that flop are the best ones. 13 posts → Making a drama with AI, from scratch, with no background in any of it. The walls, the fixes and the eight tries that didn't work. First post on the way Six years in a headset. A ballroom dancer who picks every game by the music. Back in, moving towards health. First post on the way

Some things I can figure out. Some things I've gotten myself in over my head. Some things I'm still too scared to try.

Figured it out

The rice cooker. I couldn't even make rice for the longest time, but look at me now — I can make rice like nobody's business.

In over my head

A drama made with AI, from scratch. I really just thought I could explain it and the AI would spit it out. Every step has been tough.

Still too scared

The pressure canner. I own it. It's still in the box. I'm eventually going to get around to it. I just got to build up to it.

Ongoing series

Start at part one. New parts land as I figure them out.

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Cooped Up Studios

Making a drama with AI, from scratch, with no background in any of it.

Reader favorites

The chicken posts people keep coming back to.

  1. 1 Backyard Chickens 101 | Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens
  2. 2 13 Signs My Chickens Are Sick
  3. 3 How To Care For A Broody Hen
  4. 4 How To Tell What Color Eggs A Chicken Will Lay
  5. 5 Can Chickens Swim?
Michelle

The origin story

I walked into my first college computer course. The assignment was to set up an email address and email the professor. I walked out and dropped the class, because email was obviously never going to take. That woman now has two AIs talking to each other.

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