Building Funes: How I Gave an AI Agent a Soul
· 7 min read · Essay
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. From building Funes to preserving family voices: the cost of perfect memory and the architecture that makes it survivable.
5 essays, in suggested reading order.
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SOUL.md — Funes
· 7 min read · Fiction
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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Verne and the Identity-Repo Pattern: How AI Agents Remember
· 5 min read · Essay
The identity-repo pattern: an agent's memory and its cognitive engine are separable. What this looks like in practice — and why it matters more than it sounds.
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What I Learned Orchestrating AI Agents to Preserve Family Memory
· 4 min read · Essay
My father records stories on his phone. Jules committed the wrong year. This is what I built from that.
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Pierre Menard, Computational Researcher
· 14 min read · Essay
On writing the paper before doing the research, and other engineering practices that should embarrass us less than they do.