Building Funes: How I Gave an AI Agent a Soul
· 4 min
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.
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Memory and Funes
On total recall, Pierre Menard, and what Borges saw before anyone else about the cost of perfect memory.
3 essays, in suggested reading order.
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SOUL.md — Funes
· 7 min
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.
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Pierre Menard, Computational Researcher
· 13 min
On writing the paper before doing the research, and other engineering practices that should embarrass us less than they do.