Space Invaders was low-tech by the time I was growing up, but only C-3PO and Data from Star Trek had artificial intelligence. We pioneered Internet technologies while rebelling against the norm through the music of Nirvana, but some of our dreams were sewn by the notion of our work being done by humanoid androids, and the hope for a technology to transcend the Cold War if civilization could be so enlightened.
Reality was CompuServe — data systems becoming networked — and a childhood classroom which presented no tangible concept of how real artificial intelligence would become.
Now, what we know as Large language models (LLM), like ChatGPT, and generative AI aren't hype to me; they're the epoch my cohort was waiting for. It's real.
Jeffrey Sabarese (@ajaxStardust)—musician, educator, web builder, and independent researcher—has spent roughly two decades building for the web, teaching systems-thinking through guitar and music theory, and chasing that future. The advent of LLMs and generative AI has made me more energized than ever. I intend to educate the masses—helping people learn to use, trust, and dream with artificial intelligence. I'm building the infrastructure for that dream: the practices, tools, and architectures that make AI operational instead of ornamental, so we can build and collaborate without silent breakage.
I live a dual commitment through concrete work. I advocate for CONTRACT-style comments in code—explicit preconditions, postconditions, and invariants so both humans and AI agents can preserve design intent. (Due to a past injury, my memory functions best with explicit structure; I turned that need into a reusable practice.) Through Neutility._ I focus on AI as utility: embedded, dependable, and foundational—a vision that draws on my background in Curriculum and Instruction. And I ship: PotBot is a patient-facing conversational app powered by the Claude API—normalized data, LLM-driven search, real users. This site is where I write, link, and point to the rest.
