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Surviving Hallucinations: AI Fault Tolerance for Campaigns

https://matthodges.com/posts/2026-04-10-ai-politics-fault-tolerance/

Published: April 10, 2026 05:00

Every conversation about AI in campaigns eventually hits the same wall: what about hallucinations? It’s a fair question. These models can confidently produce wrong information. They may invent quotes, fabricate statistics, and do it all in the same tone…

The Feed Framed the Last Election and AI Answers Will Frame the Next

https://matthodges.com/posts/2026-03-20-democrats-answer-layer/

Published: March 20, 2026 05:00

After 2024, Democrats drew the right immediate lesson: get better at being online. More native creators. More distributed media. More willingness to compete in the places where politics, culture, and identity now collide. You can see that instinct in the…

Quick DataViz With Claude Code

https://matthodges.com/posts/2026-01-20-quick-dataviz-claude-code/

Published: January 20, 2026 06:00

I previously wrote about how you can use VisiData to quickly scrape HTML tabular data. Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is another excellent data exploration sidekick. This is what ‘agentic’ looks like in practice. Using the same Federal Reserve list of the…

Campaigns Are Knowledge Workers and the Tools Just Caught Up

https://matthodges.com/posts/2026-01-07-ai-agents-campaigns/

Published: January 7, 2026 06:00

Over the past few weeks, something shifted in the AI conversation. Claude Code, which had been available for the better part of 2025, gained the Opus 4.5 model, and developers lost their minds. Andrej Karpathy posted, “I’ve never felt this much behind as a…

My New Agentic Campaign Finance Sidekick

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-12-19-ai-agent-fec/

Published: December 19, 2025 06:00

Claude Agent Skills are pretty neat. They remind me of OpenAI’s function calling. Both are a way to tell the model to run some external process, often with the goal of seeding the context window with deterministic data from outside the LLM system. Function…

Claude in a Game Theory Tournament

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-12-14-claude-axelrod-prisoners-dilemma/

Published: December 14, 2025 06:00

I’ve been playing around with Claude Code, and I wanted to see what happens when you give it something genuinely open-ended. Not “implement this feature” or “fix this bug” but something that would typically require actual creativity from a human. Something…

Dad

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-11-02-dad/

Published: November 2, 2025 05:00

On October 22, 2025 we got the call from Kelsey’s OBGYN that we were going to the hospital that night. The due date wasn’t until November 17, but it was time to go. We checked in to Labor and Delivery at 10:00 pm CT. On October 24, 2025 at 9:08 am CT, our…

The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-10-19-privacy-theater-pii-phone-numbers/

Published: October 19, 2025 05:00

About once a year, I’m reminded of the fact that a lot of marketing SaaS and ad tech dresses up cryptographic hashes as a sort of privacy theater. This shows up frequently in product features for suppression lists with the general idea of uploading hashed…

Tracking Five Years Of Health Data

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-10-12-five-years-of-health-data/

Published: October 12, 2025 05:00

This week I hit three small but satisfying milestones: I logged my 1,000th Peloton ride, I achieved my target body weight (again), and I completed five years of tracking my diet and exercise data. I didn’t set out to make this some big quantified…

Scraping the Federal Reserve with VisiData

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-09-30-visidata/

Published: September 30, 2025 05:00

I’ve been loving VisiData for years now. It’s my favorite way to poke around tabular data without the overhead of spreadsheets. In 2020 I posted a short video demonstrating some quick data exploration you can do with it: Today I appreciated another snappy…