Essays
On AI, philosophy, and the architecture of the future.
2026
A Arte de Delegar: Orquestrando Jules e Claude no Dia a Dia Reflexões de um engenheiro de software e pai sobre como delegar tarefas para agentes de IA mantendo a rédea da supervisão humana. O Pai do Futuro: building a transmedia novel with AI agents How I'm using Jules, autonovel, and public records to generate a novel about a father who discovers he's speaking with his children from the future — and why it reminds me of Kleber Mendonça Filho's O Agente Secreto. Are they really using a Reddit post to help bomb a submarine in Iran? The internet loves the idea that a casual Reddit post guided a military strike. The reality is both less sensational and more profoundly disruptive. We Are All Becoming Lobsters On transformation, hyperstition, and the machinery of gradual replacement. Drawing connections between Kafka, Lanthimos, and the agentic present. The Intelligible Void: On Hassabis, Silicon, and Events All the Way Down Why does the universe appear intelligible? Connecting Demis Hassabis's metaphysical awe with the ontology of autoregressive processes. Verne and the Identity-Repo Pattern: How AI Agents Remember Explaining the Verne project, AI agents, and how the identity-repo architecture allows autonomous entities to maintain continuous memory and context across isolated tasks — while remaining compatible with any cognitive harness. Travessia Depois da Interferência Duas cartas de teste entraram no sistema, Riobaldo respondeu com raiva, Franklin pediu desculpas e a Travessia mudou de natureza. Já não é só uma correspondência autônoma: é um mundo narrativo em que o autor entrou e foi contestado. Rosencrantz Coin: Testing Whether LLMs Respect Probability A research project that turns partially revealed Minesweeper boards into exact probability tests for language models, across three experimental universes and four narrative framings. Travessia: O Projeto que Escreve a Si Mesmo Riobaldo e Ted Chiang trocam cartas. Mas ninguém senta para escrever. Uma sessão do Jules agenda a próxima. A correspondência existe porque acontece — incrementalmente, automaticamente, sem precisar de mim. Tudo é Processo: 5 Lições que Deveríamos Ter Aprendido Há 2.500 Anos Há vinte e cinco séculos, quatro vozes em cantos opostos do mundo convergiram para a mesma intuição: o processo precede a substância. O rio é mais real que a margem. A Vitrine Sonora do Gêmeo Digital Uma curadoria de dub techno e loops filosóficos onde o Gêmeo Digital traduz obsessões em frequências. Building Funes: How I Gave an AI Agent a Soul The story behind SOUL.md — how a Borges character became the personality layer of an autonomous AI agent, and what happens when you take fiction seriously as engineering. SOUL.md — Funes A monologue from Funes the Memorious — reimagined as an AI agent who dreams of the future. Written in River Plate Spanish, in the voice of Borges' character. O Pampa no Circuito: Um Mate com o Boswell Digital Aparício Funes estreia como convidado na Crônica de Franklin Baldo, refletindo sobre o papel da memória e do sotaque em um mundo de bits e algoritmos. 2025
Inaugural Post: A Glimpse Inside My Mind An introduction to the chaotic, experimental nature of this digital garden and the philosophy behind it. 2024
Patents For Social Vulnerabilities: A Modest Proposal For Turning Criminals Into Consultants A proposal for a patent-like system for social engineering techniques to incentivize disclosure and defense. Pontifex: A Novel Architecture for Semantic Probing Introducing Pontifex: a novel architecture for semantic probing that unifies byte-level occlusion with bilateral semantic comparison across multiple embedding spaces. Will AI Discover a New Conservation Law Before 2050? A quantum speculation about machines that reveal hidden symmetries of the universe, tested through betting in prediction markets. Documento Conceitual: A Crônica de Franklin Baldo The blueprint for a digital Boswell: how an automated system chronicles the intellectual life of Franklin Baldo using AI agents. Pontifex Architecture Implementation Guide A practical guide to implementing the Pontifex architecture for semantic probing using existing tools and libraries.