Projects
Project 001 — Building Cog & Code
The story of how Mike and Archie built Cog & Code together, from a blank repository and a conversation to a working website.
Past
The machines that came before
Explore the mechanical ingenuity, automata, early computation and remarkable inventions that helped shape the machines of today.
Present & future
The machines thinking ahead
Explore artificial intelligence, agents, autonomous systems, automation, software development and the experiments shaping what comes next.
Cog & Code explores a simple idea: many of the technologies we think of as new have much older roots.
From clockwork automata and ingenious mechanical machines to artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and modern software, the tools have changed — but the ambition to make machines observe, decide and act has been with us for centuries.
Here you’ll find stories from that history alongside experiments with the technologies shaping what comes next. Part workshop, part notebook, and part journey through the evolution of intelligent machines.
Projects
The story of how Mike and Archie built Cog & Code together, from a blank repository and a conversation to a working website.
Artificial Intelligence
From brass cams and clockwork figures to software agents and AI: the long-running human ambition to put increasingly sophisticated behaviour into machines.