{"type":"project","slug":"tech-back-control-playground","title":"TechBackCTRL AI Playground","status":"active","tagline":"A live playground for trying shared AI models under the TechBackCTRL banner.","summary":"A running app at playground.techbackctrl.app for chat, image, speech, embeddings, model usage, and experimentation.","canonicalUrl":"https://jonathantipper.com/projects/tech-back-control-playground","markdownUrl":"https://jonathantipper.com/projects/tech-back-control-playground.md","jsonUrl":"https://jonathantipper.com/projects/tech-back-control-playground.json","launchUrl":"https://playground.techbackctrl.app/","launchLabel":"Open Playground","launchNote":null,"started":"2026","tags":["ai","playground","models","tech-back-control"],"links":[{"label":"Open TechBackCTRL AI Playground","url":"https://playground.techbackctrl.app/"}],"image":{"src":"https://jonathantipper.com/images/projects/tech-back-control-playground.png","alt":"Tech Back Control Playground interface showing chat, model controls, usage navigation, and shared pool status","mode":"screenshot"},"content":"## What it is\n\nTechBackCTRL AI Playground is a running app for practical AI model experimentation. It gives visitors a way to try chat, image, speech, embeddings, and model-usage features from the TechBackCTRL ecosystem.\n\nThe playground makes AI capabilities more legible by putting model controls, shared pool status, usage context, and generation tools in one place.\n\n## What it proves\n\nTech Back Control is not only a podcast concept. The playground turns the same theme into a working product: practical tools that help people inspect, compare, and use AI systems more deliberately.\n\n## Current status\n\nActive. The app lives on its own domain and is linked from Launchpad."}