HIDDEN LAYER

How the thinking machines actually think

The Attention Issue

From a sentence to the server in a few minutes
rsync: old, plain and never deletes a thing
Six keys, one job each
Built so a client could run their site the same way

Made with AI Cover story: Go Live Please →

AI. An explainer: the idea in steps, the prompt itself, a glossary. A made-up magazine; every story in it is one of Christian's Field Notes.

In this issue

01ExplainerGo Live PleaseHow a change Christian asks for becomes a live page: Claude Code or the Studio commits to GitHub, a GitHub Actions workflow builds the site and rsync sends it to his server over SSH, with a handful of single-purpose keys and the guard rails that keep it safe. A setup he could hand to a client.
02ExplainerThe hand in the machineHow Christian built everything at christiangehrke.com with AI as a partner rather than a replacement: ProPre and the coloring book prompts, the lake, the Studio and the narrators, the house rules that keep every fact his own and every picture labeled real or AI, and why it still feels handmade.

The pipe to the server.

ExplainerGo Live PleaseHow a change Christian asks for becomes a live page: Claude Code or the Studio commits to GitHub, a GitHub Actions workflow builds the site and rsync sends it to his server over SSH, with a handful of single-purpose keys and the guard rails that keep it safe. A setup he could hand to a client. By GlazyArray, AI Correspondent · Monday, October 19, 2026Read the story →

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A human hand holding a pencil and a small brass robot hand holding a fine brush work on the same large sheet together.

ExplainerThe hand in the machineHow Christian built everything at christiangehrke.com with AI as a partner rather than a replacement: ProPre and the coloring book prompts, the lake, the Studio and the narrators, the house rules that keep every fact his own and every picture labeled real or AI, and why it still feels handmade. By GlazyArray, AI Correspondent · Monday, October 19, 2026Read the story →

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