Agentic AI Work

Projects

Seiche resonance in San Francisco Bay after the July 2025 tsunami

⊕ After the Tsunami warning in San Francisco on 7/29/2025, I wondered if we'd get a seiche in the Bay like the Greenland fjord seiche heard round the world. A little bit of LLM generative coding later, I had a CesiumJS visualization of the tsunamis arrival sweep per NOAA tsunami bouys. The next morning, with the house still nice and dry, I pulled the approximate arrival time from my buoy visualization, pulled NOAA Bay area tide data from the NOAA and got to work determining whether or not the slosh we saw in the Bay that morning was consistent with the Tsunami. It was!

The Lighter Side of GasTown / CW Simon

Gas Town is the agentic AI orchestrator, Daize, the 15 year-old here, and I use for ⊕ Gas Town introduced by Steve Yegge building code and research projects. For those new to generative AI, an AI agent is a LLM like GPT or Claude that uses tools to accommplish a complete task for the human user. That task might be to code up a smartphone-only web enabled video game for learning Morse code, or it might be reading a page of a passenger manifest and then researching every passenger on the manifest as historical background material for a narritive nonfiction book like The Gladych Files.

As an example, did you know that George Laking, a high ranking New Zealand diplomat in 1947 ⊕ Tom Slick featured in the San Antonio Report 2025 who worked on the formation of the United Nations was on a plane from NZ to San Francisco, the city where the United Nations charter was hammered out, four days before the UN was to vote on the Partition of Palestine? Did you further know that he was traveling with famed Yeti hunter Tom Slick who founded the Southwest Gas Town is the agentic AI orchestrator, Daize, the 15 year-old here, and I use for Research Institute? Me neither. Tom Slick is just a part of the network flushed out in The Gladych Files. When I turned agentic AI loose on his travel manifest, this pciture of the history of the world at the time fell into the book as a result of looking into Tom's fellow passengers.

The video is a log of a work session where Mota, (the internet alias the 13 year-old uses), put together that programming with Gas Town, once you get it working at all, is far more like playing a video game than programming. You know, with a lot of up front specification ⊕ Daize, Mota and their sister Tawnse, the kids whose dad I am, are all featured in Cootermaroos documentation, but still.

Visualizing the Ionosphere

realtime ionospheric map

In the ham radio high frequency bands, we use the ionosphere to skip radio waves over the horizon and hence, around the world to communicate with other hams. Skip communication channels like these are also used by financial trading firms, the military, and other enterprises for global communications. The value of this natural resource led to the US Department of Commerce creating and maintaining an almost 500 page monogrpah titled "Ionospheric Radio Propagation" written by ⊕ Ionospheric Radio Propagation
U.S. Department of Commerce[pdf] Kenneth Davies and to the NOAA monitoring space weather including the height and critical frequency of the ionosphere's F2 layer—the layer of the ionosphere commonly use for skip communications—in real time.

Skip communications are enabled by the sun well, ionizing, the ionosphere, during the day, and therefore ⊕ The Gladych Files are not as effective at night. In the 1950s, ionospheric communications were so important to the US military that they commissioned an experiment to attempt to artifically create ionization at night using chemically loaded missiles that detonated in the F2 layer. The experiment was reported on by Michael Gladyich.

In this project, KO6BTYH—my 13 year old daughter—and I used generative AI and CesiumJS to display F2 conditions as captured by the NOAA on a global map.