https://punkrockai.com/ Field notes from Kris Krüg's Punk Rock AI / Both Hands Full keynote: the talk, the portal, the receipts. en-us Sun, 03 May 2026 13:03:36 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html https://punkrockai.com/recap.html A feature-length recap of the Punk Rock AI / Both Hands Full keynote — the talk, the building, the room, what came next. The whole arc, with receipts. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#walk-out https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#walk-out Twenty minutes is not a lot of time. Twenty minutes is the entire Creative Mornings Vancouver block, the Q&A nudging in from the side, the room finding its coffee, the projector finally deciding what it wants to be. By the time you walk out, every argument you ever had with this talk has been settled or surrendered. The slides don’t move anymore. The script is whatever you put in front of the… Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#thesis https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#thesis The first draft was an AI talk. The fourth draft was a discussion-first AI talk. The sixth draft was a creativity story with AI as the latest chapter. The version that walked out at 8am on May 1st — v9 — was the same talk as the v6 framework, with the climax in the right place. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#slides https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#slides The slides are zine. Black ground, blood-red stencil, hot-pink drip paint, halftone collage, deliberate spelling errors, deliberate registration errors. Every slide was generated by AI. Every slide was wrong about a dozen times before it was right. The contact sheet of refusals is a meaningful artifact in its own right — the cutting room floor is the work. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#audio https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#audio Eighteen minutes of audio. ElevenLabs, generated from a hand-edited prose pass that lives in dress-rehearsal/elevenlabs-full-script.md. The script is paragraph-broken at the natural breathing points. The voice is mine, cloned from one of my own voiceovers. The generation script (dress-rehearsal/generate-audio.py) is committed; the mp3s are not, because mp3s belong on a CDN, not in a git history. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#portal https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#portal The first version of punkrockai.com was a single static HTML file. Ninety-two lines. Vanilla CSS. Black on blood-red. It said the thesis, named the date, linked to Release Day, and did nothing else. That site was the right site for an audience of zero who would type the URL in themselves to confirm something they already knew. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#stack https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#stack Vanilla HTML was a values choice, not a technical one. The talk says pick up the tool, use it wrong, share what you learn. The site practices that — the “tool” is the open web platform shipped to every browser since 1995, and the “wrong” is to use it without the layers of tooling that the contemporary developer experience treats as mandatory. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#room https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#room A hundred and eighty-one RSVPs walked in. Twenty of those people were profiled in the dossier ahead of time — the Pasquiers and Rand-Hendriksens and Edmondses, the Frieles and Djwas, the people whose presence in the room was load-bearing because the talk needed an audience that already knew the difference between extraction and remix. The rest were strangers I owed a story to. Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#whats-next https://punkrockai.com/recap.html#whats-next The talk had a hard deadline. The portal does not. Phase 4 (interactive widgets, demos, diagrams) is being scoped right now — track the issues for what gets built next. A non-exhaustive list of what belongs in there: a Selector simulator, a cut-up generator, a Junior Pipeline diagram, a posse-builder force-directed graph, a daily mastery-gym tracker, a chainsaws-of-history showcase. Some of… Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT