I BUILT A FLY A FULL BREWERY AND IT... STARTED MAKING BEER It starts with a fly dragging a pallet jack loaded with seven bags of milled malt into an industrial brewing system. Then it gets to work. It opens the boiler valves, starts the transfer pump, moves mash between three massive tanks and climbs the metal stairs carrying a 33 kg bag of Pilsner malt like this is just another day at the brewery. The entire process is being controlled step by step. The fly decides when to open the steam, when to transfer the mash, when to start cooling and when to move on to the next stage. Every action appears in the log while a neural network with 393 nodes and 472 connections keeps track of the decisions happening behind the scenes. Then comes the part I really didn't expect to see. The fly adds its own hops. FLYHOPS goes into the kettle, the wort starts moving through the system and the little brewer goes back to work. A few moments later, it opens the cooling water and finally hovers over the last tank to add FLYMENTIS yeast. > Malt > Hops > Yeast Three giant tanks. One very determined fly. I think I accidentally gave an insect everything it needs to start its own breweryshow more

THIS ROBOT HAS A DEAD FLY'S BRAIN AND IT... WALKS LIKE A FLY scientists sliced the fly into thousands of layers thinner than a virus to copy every wire in its body the fly didn't survive the map did: 166,700 neurons, from the brain all the way down to the legs so somebody built it a new body six metal legs, 18 motors, two camera eyes and a battery strapped to its back no walking code, they just wired the leg neurons into the motors and switched it on > it turned its head and looked straight at the camera > then it walked, three legs down, three legs up, the exact way a real fly does > when someone reached for it, it froze > when the hand got closer, it ran nobody taught it any of that the fly has been dead for years, and its brain still knows how to escape next on the list is a mouseshow more

A FLY IS NOW WRITING PYTHON CODE WITH ITS... OWN NERVOUS SYSTEM I genuinely didn't expect a fly to end up behind a code editor. The setup is strangely simple. A fly sits on a keyboard while its neural activity is captured in real time. On the other side of the screen, Python code starts appearing line by line inside wordle_solver_v1.py, with the neural visualization changing as the input comes through. The model contains 100,010 flyemg neurons, with 88,172 represented in the current neural model. As activity changes, the system translates those signals into keyboard input and the cursor keeps moving through the code. Then you start looking at what is actually being typed. import random import unicodedata def quitar_acentos(palabra): It's not just random characters filling the editor. The video shows an actual Python function being constructed while the neural activity and keyboard input remain synchronized beside it. Brain activity → keyboard → code. A tiny biological nervous system is being used as the interface between a fly and a programming environment. The fly isn't sitting there watching someone code. It's sitting on the keyboard while the system turns its neural activity into the next input. And somehow the first thing it ended up building was a Wordle solvershow more

THIS ROBOT IS RUNNING ON THE WIRING OF A... DEAD FLY. NOT A BRAIN-INSPIRED AI. THE ACTUAL CIRCUITS BIOLOGY BUILT. scientists reconstructed a fruit fly nervous system containing: 166,700 neurons roughly 125 million synapses the circuits responsible for vision, movement and behavior then developers gave that wiring something it was never designed to control: a completely different body. camera input enters the system sensory neurons react signals travel through the reconstructed neural circuits command neurons produce a movement decision and the machine moves. the robot provides the cameras, motors and metal limbs. the fly provides the biological architecture behind part of its behavior. this is not consciousness uploaded into a machine. the robot doesn’t think it is a fly. it doesn’t remember being alive. and the original animal is still dead. but the neural machinery that once controlled six tiny legs can now send commands into an entirely new body. millions of years of evolution designed the wiring. AI reconstructed it. engineers connected it to metal. the fly never came back to life. its nervous system simply found another body. I broke down how a dead brain map became a robot controller below ↓show more

A CLUB JUST ASKED MY FLY TO DJ THEIR... ENTIRE NIGHT Yesterday I got a message from a club called Neon Hive with a completely insane proposal: they wanted my FLY to run their next party from start to finish and choose everything by itself. They wanted no human controlling the set. So I gave them my code, connected the system to their DJ setup and let the fly take over the booth for the night. From that moment, every decision was hers. Fly picked what played next, controlled the decks and kept the party moving while hundreds of people danced, sang and had absolutely no idea who was actually running the music. The weirdest part is watching the footage afterward. You see a packed nightclub going completely crazy while this tiny fly is sitting behind the decks with its headphones on, casually running the entire night like this is what it was born to do. Nobody in the crowd knows their DJ is an insect. And somehow, the party just keeps going. Neon Hive might have been the first club brave enough to hire a FLYshow more

166,700 fruit fly neurons are flying a drone around... my bedroom. 1 camera watches my open hand and that's the whole input. The panel in the middle is the brain running live 166,700 neurons, 25 million connections, the full reconstructed map of a fruit fly's head. Camera reads the hand, the brain fires, the output becomes throttle. Open palm and it climbs, fist and it holds, drop the hand and it comes down. 4 propellers the size of a coin hanging off a nervous system that belonged to an insect. The honest part this is a computational model, not a resurrected fly, the wiring is biological, the drone is mine, I built the bridge between them. I never wrote flight logic, no PID tuning, no gesture presets, I gave the neurons somewhere to send the signal and they found the ceiling. 11 seconds in, it holds altitude on its own. The fly is dead and it's still flying.show more

this is insane, a dead fly brain just got... a new body 166,700 fruit fly neurons and more than 25 million biological connections are now sitting inside a robotic body that looks almost exactly like the animal they came from the lab gave those neurons cameras, wings and motors, then let the system figure out what those signals meant without writing normal flight behavior for it a light moves and the head turns airflow changes and the wings correct another fly crosses the camera and the robot starts following it the creepy part is how little machinery the brain actually needs before old instincts start becoming useful again nature spent hundreds of millions of years building a nervous system that can react, stabilize and chase movement someone just gave that nervous system a body made of metal the original fly is gone its wiring is still trying to flyshow more

Claude Mobile starts the idea... Ghostty finishes it I... basically use Claude Mobile as a notepad now. Whenever something comes to mind, I open the app, pick a repo, and ask Claude to start exploring. Then I just let it run while I go on with my day. Later I jump into Claude Desktop and I’m right back in the same session, with context, structure, and a clearer shape of the idea. I tweak a few things to set up the coding phase. Finally, one click to Ghostty (video), open a couple of worktrees, and start working on the PR. IMPORTANT: when you move to Ghostty, it must be the exact same repo you started on mobile, otherwise the --teleport command will failshow more

A dead fruit fly was sliced into 66 pieces.... Now its 166,700 neurons are driving robots. Nobody trained it, no dataset, no reward function, no GPU farm, just the wiring. The fly took a second to die, but copying it took 7 microscopes running nonstop for a year, shaving it 1/10,000 of a hair at a time and photographing every layer before the next cut. AI rebuilt it from the scraps, eyes to legs with the neck still attached, 124M synapses and 11,710 cell types, 44 years of human labor finished by machines. Scientists first tried this in 2008 and guessed it would take 500 people 10 years. Then the internet got the file and someone gave it a body. Camera → fly eyes → 166,700 spiking neurons → descending neurons → motors. One of those neurons is DNp01, the giant fiber, the cell that fires when your hand comes down. Push an object at the camera and the looming detectors light up, so the robot swerves. It took 0 training runs, just the same reflex that gets a fly out from under a swatter in 100 milliseconds. Then came the control test, where they kept all 138,639 neurons and shuffled where the synapses connect. The behavior died. The intelligence was never in the neurons, it was in the map. The fly is gone, but the flinch is still running.show more

HOLY SH*T, A DEAD FLY’S BRAIN MAP IS NOW... MAKING A ROBOT MOVE. not a brain sitting inside a jar. not an AI trained to imitate how a fly behaves. the actual wiring reconstructed from its nervous system. scientists mapped: 166,700 neurons roughly 125 million synapses the circuits behind vision, motion and behavior AI helped reconstruct the connections. developers then turned the map into a control loop: camera sees the environment → fly-derived visual circuits process the input → modeled neurons produce activity → activity becomes motor commands → the robot moves the body is synthetic. the control logic begins with biological wiring shaped by millions of years of evolution. this does not mean the fly was resurrected. the robot isn’t conscious. it doesn’t remember being alive. it doesn’t understand where it is going. but the solution its nervous system used to see, react and move can now operate inside a completely different body. this is bigger than one robot. if biological circuits can become inspectable controllers, engineers may not need to invent every intelligent behavior from zero. they can study solutions evolution already built. the fly is dead. its wiring is still making something move. I broke down how 166,700 neurons escaped the brain map and entered a machine below ↓show more

A STUDENT TURNED A FRUIT FLY BRAIN INTO AN... AI AGENT AND STEERS IT WITH HER BARE HAND Google and HHMI Janelia spent 10 years mapping the nervous system of 1 male fruit fly, and on September 3 they released the whole map for free. 166,700 neurons and 24.5M synapses, every wire from eye to leg. She ran all of it as a leaky integrate-and-fire simulation and then gave it a job. The top-right panel is the brain firing live, the robot on the left is the agent it drives. A camera tracks her fingers, the movements hit the fly's sensory neurons, and whatever motor neurons fire decide what the agent does. Status: IDLE Pinch → RUNNING IMPLEMENTATION Point → SPINNING UP NEW IMPL Pull back → HEAVY LIFTING The catch: this is not a living fly but a computer model of real wiring, and she built the link between her hand and its neurons. 12 days ago this brain was a dataset Then it played DOOM Then Chrome Dino Then it walked a Strandbeest Now it works for a student. The fly died years ago, but its wiring still takes orders.show more

April 30 • 12:00pm ET Art Blocks + OpenSea... “Gift of time” began during my residency in Marfa, Texas, as part of the Art Blocks and OpenSea artist residency program, where a distinct shift in the experience of time became central to the work. In the desert, I felt time move differently. It stretched, slowed, and became something I noticed. After a few days, the rhythm changed. Moments felt longer, attention sharpened, and I became increasingly aware of each moment as it passed. This work comes from that condition. Time is not treated only as a theme, but as a system embedded in the structure of the piece. Different ways of measuring time, such as mechanical cycles, calendars, and lunar phases, are translated into rules that continuously transform the work. The piece does not represent time. It runs on it. Its movement is tied to blockchain time. Even when unseen, it continues to rotate and evolve. When loaded, it synchronizes with the present moment, but it does not begin when it is viewed, and it does not stop when it disappears from the screen. During the residency, I spent hours thinking, sketching, and making connections. Those connections are also visible. Elastic lines, like rubber bands, link elements across the piece, representing how memories connect, how one thought leads to another, and how everything builds over time. These same connections introduce moments where the system attempts to pull itself back, as if trying to regain control. But it never fully resets. It is not a loop. The movement continues, drifting forward, never returning to a fixed state. Visually, the work reveals its own construction. Lines, paths, and rotations expose an internal logic, like looking inside a mechanism. The drawing language recalls diagrams, technical sketches, or the interior of a mechanical watch. It is a system in motion, always active. “Gift of Time” exists because I was given time by Art Blocks, OpenSea, and above all my family. It is my way of saying thank you. It is both a reflection on time and a product of it. April 30 @ 12:00pm ET on Art blocks & OpenSea 1 / 1 / 365 • 0.02 Eth Art Blocks, OpenSeashow more

UPDATE: Flyctor has a second body now I bought... another Vector robot and connected it to the same stack: - a camera feed - GPT-6 Astra for real-time visual understanding - a MaleCNS fly-brain simulation for movement decisions - a small audio protocol for robot-to-robot communication I didn't let them exchange normal Wi-Fi messages. Instead, each robot has to communicate through its speaker and microphone. One robot emits a short sequence of tones. The other records the sound, converts it into a frequency pattern, classifies the pattern, and injects it into its fly-brain simulation as a sensory event. Right now their entire vocabulary is only four signals: one chirp = "I found an object" two chirps = "come closer" long tone = "path blocked" rapid chirps = "I need help" The interesting part is that the robots don't send coordinates. They don't share a map. They don't know where the other robot is. One Flyctor sees something through Astra, decides it matters, sends a sound, and the other Flyctor has to hear it, interpret it, then decide what to do with that information. camera -> Astra -> fly brain -> speaker microphone -> audio decoder -> fly brain -> movement It is basically a tiny sensory loop between two digital insect nervous systems. Yesterday one robot detected a blocked path and sent the long-tone signal. The other one heard it, turned toward the sound, and rolled over to investigate. It was not impressive in the way modern AI demos are impressive. It was impressive because it felt like watching two small creatures notice each other for the first time.show more

While building SEV0, I ran into moments where natural... language prompting just wasn't enough - too vague, too indirect. So I started using a method that bridges that gap. I call it Bridged Prompting - a technique where you temporarily step out of the prompt-response loop to manipulate something directly using an AI-generated UI, then step back in. Think of it like GenUI, but more user-driven and transient. AI generates a UI on-the-fly, tailored to your prompt, and lets you manipulate the artifact directly before resuming the conversation. Sure, you could build a full tool, switch tabs, wire it up and round-trip your data. But with Bridged Prompting, the AI just spins up a temporary interface right in the flow. In the video below, I used it to construct the hallway system to closely match the layout of the severed floor. This is something I needed to do for this one project, this one time - I didn't need to make a whole separate app. Bridged Prompting lets you: - Make precise edits visually or structurally - "Hit save" to persist changes to local storage or a backend - Return to your natural language promptshow more

At the end of a long day it pays... to stand back and reflect on the events of the day. Some times in the garage time can fly by and lots gets done, other times it’s the opposite.show more

I remember working on this shot early in the... morning before work, and one day when the rough #animation was complete, I went to open the file and it was corrupted. By some miracle I was able to get it working again, but I think this took me the better part of a week to animate.show more

i tried Framer Agent to build a brand guidelines... website template, something i've meant to do for a while. a site i can swap a logo, nudge a colour, update the type, and send a link instead of re-exporting a pdf nobody opens. a few observations on the AI process: - i started with references. pulled together a handful of minimalist grid layouts and had Claude describe the visual style back to me. you can do the same inside Framer, feeding it the references directly. - from there i had it write a detailed prompt aimed at that exact style, then asked it to break it into a few smaller steps. then i fed those into the agent, one at a time. - the scaffolding stage is the satisfying part. for something this grid-driven (the columns, the spans, the whole underlying structure) watching it land in seconds is hard to look away from. - but then i still have to sweat the details: text alignment, line-heights, image sizes. i don't mind it at all; it's the part i like, making these design decisions. the strength of the agent is the mundane work. point it at the stuff that eats your time: cleaning up the build, adding responsiveness, dropping in small effects, checking text and colour styles stay consistent, writing alt text for every image. then i get the time back for the parts of web design that are actually fun. 🤝show more

imagine putting $1k into a token and turning it... into $470k. that's exactly what happened to me with $meme. honestly, i don't even have the words to describe how happy i feel. a close friend of mine gave me the heads up that this token was about to fly, and well, that's exactly what happened. in this space, the people with the right connections make the money. and that's where i come in.show more

166,000 neurons from a dead fruit fly now hunt... drones from a bedroom desk. A white drone the size of a palm lifts off the carpet, and a black 3D-printed turret on the desk swings after it, with the fly's brain working its 2 stepper motors, 1 camera and 2 barrels through a nest of rainbow wires on a breadboard. That brain sits in the top-left corner of the screen and flares every time the drone jerks. A Patriot interceptor costs about $4 million, and armies are firing them at drones worth a fraction of that. This brain is smaller than a poppy seed, and Google put it online for free 2 weeks ago. Then someone gave it a job it was built for. Most of a fly's brain exists to see motion, and this brain is male, and male flies spend their lives chasing whatever moves. The drone climbs past the ceiling fan and the crosshair climbs with it, then drops when it drops. For 18 seconds it never loses the drone. In the last shot the drone flies home to the guy holding the controller, and the crosshair follows it right onto his chest. It spent its whole life dodging swatters. Now it's the one aiming.show more

Blimey! This was a challenge to find. The Brewery... Tap pub in Brentford right now. It’s even in my book of Greatest pubs, but when I just came to find it I got totally confused and had to get Google maps out! The street is completely changed since I was here. None of these buildings existed when I last came. Just mentioned to the landlady and she said yes, they’re thinking of having a box of medals on the bar to anyone who manages to find the pub. I’m celebrating finding it with a glass of wine. Cheers 🥂show more

🚨 one person can now do the work of... an entire creative team. i just tested it on a real one. a friend needed an ad for his brand, so I opened the new Runway Agent 2.0 to try it out. here's how it went: → it generated the music and the key image first, so I could approve the direction → once I gave the ok, it built the full video around it → and when something was off, i changed just that one piece, without redoing the rest one prompt, and I had the ad we needed, work that used to take weeks. this is what it made 👇 if you want to try it → · 30% off 3 months with code RUNWAYAGENT — made with Runway · #MadeWithRunway · #adshow more