Agency and Constraint
Why alignment is not the absence of capability but the architecture that shapes it. From the temple at Delphi to the harness in your pocket.
Franklin Baldo
Notes on AI, law, and systems.
- Two Questions, Out Loud
- Three Hammers Walk Into a Bar
- Who the asterisk protects
- Pierre Menard, Computational Researcher
- The Agent That Doesn't Invent Verbs
- The Jules API as a Harness Backend
- The Serpent's Egg
- The Three Imperatives at Delphi
- The Third Half and the Fourth Wall
- Reclaiming the Harness
- Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: Why My Experience Got So Much Better
- What I Learned Orchestrating AI Agents to Preserve Family Memory