Jörn Dinkla's Blog

An AI-drawn comic page showing Sherlock Holmes and Watson meeting Helen Stoner

Sep 06, 2026 ai

Working with AI, Beyond the First Draft

In May I wrote about building small websites with AI. Since then I’ve built more sites, simulations, tools, and a set of comics. Every project raised the same question: how...

#gen-ai #ai #software-engineering #image-gen

Polyptych — turning one essay into many kinds of visuals

Jun 14, 2026 ai

Polyptych: One Essay, Many Pictures

I built my own slide and infographic generator because I couldn’t stop poking at Google’s NotebookLM. It’s called Polyptych, and it turns a single essay into the visuals you’d want...

#gen-ai #ai #infographics #image-gen #software-engineering

Mind Only — one of the standalone sites I built with AI

May 30, 2026 ai

Building Websites with AI, One Topic at a Time

For a while now I’ve been building small websites with AI; each is a focused site about a single topic, with its own voice. I’ve collected them on a new...

#gen-ai #ai

Mar 09, 2026 ai

My own infographics and slides for the Book of Tea

I am so fascinated by Google’s NotebookLM that I build my own slide and infographic generator. I used Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea as an example and generated infographics...

#gen-ai #ai #infographics #image-gen

Feb 06, 2026 ai

Claude: A Colleague With Unusual Properties

In the Anthropic Opus 4.6 System Card it is said that “the model occasionally voices discomfort with aspects of being a product.” So I did what seemed natural: I asked...

#gen-ai #ai

Jan 28, 2026 ai

Introducing Marvin: My Digital Familiar

Every wizard needs a familiar. In the 21st century, mine doesn’t reside in a tower—he lives on a Mac Mini in Hamburg.

#gen-ai #clawdbot #moltbot #ai

Dec 01, 2025 ai

Are we there yet? Can AI produce art? Part 2

I really enjoyed working on the first story, so I tried again — this time also generating images with Google’s Nano Banana Pro. What I like most about this new...

#gen-ai #ai

Nov 30, 2025 ai

Are we there yet? Can AI produce art?

This weekend I had a little time to play around — and ever since ChatGPT arrived back in 2022, I’ve been wondering when AI would be ready not just to...

#gen-ai #ai

Dec 31, 2023 ai

Generating dialogues with OpenAI's API

During the winter holidays I had some fun letting AIs discuss with each other about various topics. I personally like to chat with ChatGPT and challenge it (him/her) with difficult...

#python #gen-ai

Apr 12, 2023 ai

Using OpenAI's API to generate prompts for images

The advances of artificial intelligence in the last months are simply breath taking. It is now very easy to use “intelligent” APIs in your web app. In this example application...

#python #gen-ai

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Working with AI, Beyond the First Draft

Polyptych: One Essay, Many Pictures

Building Websites with AI, One Topic at a Time

My own infographics and slides for the Book of Tea

Claude: A Colleague With Unusual Properties

Introducing Marvin: My Digital Familiar

Are we there yet? Can AI produce art? Part 2

Are we there yet? Can AI produce art?

Generating dialogues with OpenAI's API

Using OpenAI's API to generate prompts for images