Jasper StaatsHead of Tech, Like A Human
A worn teal kitchen corner in low morning sun: lace on the window, fruit and an enamel pot on the worktop, a kettle on an old white stove

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Latest20 October 2026, 11 min read

It is not a one-shot scene

How I built a studio-style 3D kitchen with Claude Code, Codex and one human art director. Nine and a half hours, six stills, eleven reviews by a second AI model, and a floating cup that seven review rounds missed.

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Notes from the build: what I make with Claude Code and other models, what breaks, and what still needs a person.

4 posts, 55 minutes of reading, 2 series

Series2 parts, 32 min

Agents that play Factorio

  1. The July colony dashboard: a minimap of the factory, production rates along the top and a crew panel with each agent’s last messagePart 1

    , 11 min read

    Mission control

    Part 1 of 2. In July I let a colony of Claude Code sessions play Factorio for a week: a foreman, eight named workers, a reviewer, a “god” on Claude Fable, and a dashboard that looked like mission control. Between 17:00 and 21:00 UTC it logged 856 refused sessions as successes, and from 17:31 its production log was silent.

    • Agent research
    • Multi-agent
    • Claude Code
    • Evaluation
  2. An illustration of a factory at dusk: glowing machines joined by long belts across a flat desert, with smoke rising toward the horizonPart 2

    , 21 min read

    Nothing learns while it plays

    Part 2 of 2. In October I built a hive of agents for Factorio on one rule from the research: only a grader the learner cannot touch may change the next run. Five days, 13,942 decisions, two no-go verdicts from Codex, and what I would do differently.

    • Agent research
    • Local models
    • Codex
    • Evaluation
    • Python

Series2 parts, 23 min

Building 3D scenes with AI

  1. A low view across a dark lake toward a timber cabin on a stone plinth, between mossy rock slabs and firsPart 1

    , 12 min read

    Fast to try, slow to make good

    My first try at a studio-quality 3D scene with AI. One beautiful image from Krea, 34 rounds in Blender, a walkable Unity build, a lake that went black and a granite wall where a rock should lie. And the pipeline that came out of the mess.

    • 3D
    • Claude Code
    • Codex
    • Unity
    • Blender
  2. A worn teal kitchen corner in low morning sun: lace on the window, fruit and an enamel pot on the worktop, a kettle on an old white stovePart 2

    , 11 min read

    It is not a one-shot scene

    How I built a studio-style 3D kitchen with Claude Code, Codex and one human art director. Nine and a half hours, six stills, eleven reviews by a second AI model, and a floating cup that seven review rounds missed.

    • 3D
    • Claude Code
    • Codex
    • Blender
    • Pipelines