Robot reviewing presentation slides with a magnifying glass

Teaching AI to see its own slides

I’ve been having AI agents generate PowerPoint decks for a while now. python-pptx works, the slides come out structurally correct, but there’s a problem: the agent never sees what it made. It writes XML instructions for shapes, text, and layouts, then hands you the file and hopes for the best. It’s like writing CSS without ever opening a browser. You can get the structure right, but spacing, alignment, and visual balance? Pure guesswork. ...

March 23, 2026 · 5 min · Ilkka Anttonen
Robot team working at desks with a network diagram on the whiteboard

Building a self-coordinating AI development team

I wanted to see what happens when you give a team of AI agents a codebase and let them work on it with minimal supervision. Not a demo with three tasks, but a real, ongoing development project running for weeks. The result is ai-team – a multi-agent coordination system where specialized AI agents pick up tasks, write code in isolated git branches, get reviewed and tested by other agents, and merge their work back. As I write this, the system has processed over 1,000 task units (“beads”) and is currently building its own knowledge graph feature. ...

March 14, 2026 · 8 min · Ilkka Anttonen