The weekly strip · 16 issues · page 2 of 2
From the case files
The real projects on this site, written up long form.
- Issue 58
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 7 min read
Playwright and AI: cutting automation latency 40% without flakiness
Where Playwright automation time goes, the documented levers (state reuse, waiting, blocking, parallelism), and where a model helps with selectors and where it hurts.
- Playwright
- automation
- latency
- flaky tests
- AI agents
- Issue 57
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 7 min read
Browser admin automation: the 3 to 5 hours a day pattern, and where AI fits
How to find the hours worth automating in a browser workflow, what 99.9% uptime means for an extension, and where AI belongs. From case file 08, with a worked example.
- automation
- admin tooling
- Chrome extension
- Manifest V3
- reliability
- Issue 54
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 7 min read
Fraud signals in uploaded documents: what a model can and cannot see
A vision model reads a payslip well but never sees its PDF metadata. Which fraud checks belong in the model, which in code, with a Claude API example.
- fraud detection
- document processing
- Claude API
- structured output
- Issue 52
10 October 2026 · From the case files · 7 min read
OCR plus VLMs: document processing in 2024 and in 2026
The 2024 GPT-4 Vision plus OCR pipeline at 95% across 17+ document types, and what current Claude and Gemini document APIs change, with per-page cost maths.
- document processing
- OCR
- VLM
- Claude
- Gemini