Notes By Lex Toumbourou

A digital garden about AI, software, learning, and other assorted topics.

Welcome. I'm Lex Toumbourou - a machine learning engineer and software developer based in Brisbane, Australia, currently a Senior MLE at Canva. These are my working notes, collected since 2012 and organised since 2020 using the Zettelkasten method. Permanent notes each explore a single idea and its connections. Literature notes capture what I'm reading and watching.

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  1. May 9, 2026 reference LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
  2. May 7, 2026 permanent AI-Induced Cognitive Atrophy
  3. Apr 29, 2026 reference OpenGame: Open Agentic Coding for Games
  4. Apr 25, 2026 permanent Naming Things Is Easy Now
  5. Apr 21, 2026 permanent Obsidian Markdown Notebook: code execution with outputs stored in the file
  6. Mar 22, 2026 permanent Research, Plan, Implement Workflow
  7. Feb 26, 2026 reference Self-Generated Agent Context Files Don't Help Either
  8. Feb 21, 2026 reference Self-Generated Skills Don't Help
  9. Feb 11, 2026 reference Generative Modelling via Drifting
  10. Feb 8, 2026 permanent Software Factory
  11. Jan 29, 2026 permanent OpenClaw: the missing piece for Obsidian's second brain
  12. Jan 19, 2026 permanent Spec-First LLM Development