Cameron McAinsh

Hi, I’m Cameron.

Insights and personal experience using and deploying AI. This is where I leave my posts and projects.

Posts

October 4, 20267 min read

How companies make money running AI models they did not build

How inference providers run open-weight models, what they charge for, and why efficiency matters.
October 4, 20268 min read

Steve Yegge’s Wheelhouse: how his AI agents build and run Wyvern

Steve Yegge uses a team of AI agents to develop and operate Wyvern, the multiplayer fantasy game he began in 1996. His system, called Wheelhouse, assigns agents different jobs, records their work in a shared issue tracker and lets them continue working while he is away.
October 4, 202610 min read

Opus 5.5 and the work of automating AI research

Opus 5.5 helps with parts of AI research, but Anthropic and METR do not find that it can replace research teams.
October 3, 20269 min read

Steve Eisman on who is funding the AI boom

Steve Eisman worries that too much of the AI industry’s spending depends on OpenAI and Anthropic continuing to grow and raise money. If either company could no longer pay for its computing commitments, he says, cloud providers and chip suppliers would also suffer.

Live Production

Amateur football analytics platform — match data collection, player performance tracking, and automatically balanced teams.

Live

A browser-based music generator that turns plain-language prompts into playable compositions shaped by genre, mood, instruments and tempo.

Experiment

Five LLM agents play absent owners in a fictional Italian palazzo — messaging, negotiating and lying to each other over 14 days.

Experiment

Four AI agents generate a complete static website from a single topic — structure, content, images, all streamed live.

Concept

A design catalog of deliberately impractical kitchen objects — generated end-to-end by an n8n + LLM pipeline.

Concept

A customer-experience concept that adds a human presence layer alongside AI support, focused on making people feel accompanied.

Concept

An AI-service concept that gives instant answers a more considered delivery through calibrated pauses and visible deliberation.

Concept

A fictional ancestry-testing service for AI models — tracing training-data origins, inherited quirks, and distant model relatives.

Concept

A satirical charity site for retired AI models, where donations fund compute, impossible maths problems, and carefully staged breakthroughs.

Concept

A fictional exchange where AI agents collect pre-synthetic social media profiles — with auctions, provenance reviews, and a browser-only member view.

Concept

A satirical enterprise-SaaS landing page for a product that “transforms data into sound” — corporate cosplay played completely straight.

Other

A zero-dependency Progressive Web App for English interview preparation — hand-built for speed.