Plutonic Rainbows

I had Sonnet 3.7 generate README and CHANGELOG files for all my projects. I suppose relieving this kind of monotony is a worthwhile use of agents.

OpenAI released 4.1 today with variants — all available through their API.

Using Agents to write your code is likely the future. Today, I used them to add icons to a menu bar in an image generation app, though it wasn’t entirely smooth sailing. Be very careful — and, more importantly, ensure you phrase your prompts correctly. This will save you from countless hours of panic, rewrites, and GitHub reverts.

Anyway, managed to get the icons working properly and fixed an issue where the endpoint would not switch smoothly. Yesterday, I also added progress indicators.

I spent unnecessary money trying to get Gemini 2.5 Pro Max and Sonnet 3.7 Max to create file attributes for projects and apply them to a new folder. Two things came of it:

• Premium tool calls — $15 in total. Totally wasted money.

• I made no real progress and ultimately just created a boilerplate template instead.

• The boilerplate worked with only minimal edits.

The only positive from the experience is that I managed to completely revamp the UX for my image generation projects.

Ash, directed by Flying Lotus, is a bold and atmospheric sci-fi thriller that blurs the line between horror and psychological mystery. The film opens with astronaut Riya (Eiza González) waking up on a distant research station to find her entire crew gruesomely murdered, her memory in disarray, and a strange life force haunting the facility. As she attempts to make sense of the chaos, her isolation is broken by Brion (Aaron Paul), a fellow astronaut who answers her distress signal. Their uneasy reunion stirs up more questions than answers, as the film skillfully cultivates paranoia and distrust between its two leads.

Eiza González delivers a gripping and vulnerable performance, grounding the film’s surreal tone with emotional authenticity. Her chemistry with Aaron Paul adds dramatic tension, especially as their characters grapple with fragmented truths and personal histories. Flying Lotus, known for his musical innovation, brings a visually stunning and sonically immersive style to the screen, drenched in neon and laced with dread. The cinematography, sound design, and pacing draw clear inspiration from sci-fi staples like Blade Runner 2049 and Event Horizon, yet the film never feels like a copy — it embraces its influences while carving its own strange, cerebral path.

Though it leans into familiar genre tropes, Ash stands out for its ambition and commitment to mood over exposition. It explores themes of memory, identity, and the fragility of perception in the face of cosmic horror. Some viewers may find its narrative elliptical or its visuals overpowering, but that’s part of the film’s unique allure. Flying Lotus doesn’t aim for mainstream clarity; instead, he crafts a haunting, hypnotic experience that lingers in the mind. Ash isn’t just a film — it’s a plunge into the eerie unknown, where nothing can be trusted, not even yourself.