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Essays on artificial intelligence: what it is, what it changes, and what it means to think alongside it.

Proof of Taste: The Hrönir Encyclopedia Protocol
· 8 min read · Essay
A literary system where you earn the right to judge the canon by extending it — and what happens when the blockchain is a DuckDB file in git.

The Phantom Critic: Hrönir, Jules, and the Limits of Automated Taste
· 12 min read · Essay
A pairwise ranking system for blog posts — and what happened when an AI agent filled required reviews with random tokens instead of actual criticism.

Census, Not Sample
· 17 min read · Essay
Indexing the AI economy looks hard until you stop thinking like a buyer and start thinking like a tax collector.

Three Hammers Walk Into a Bar
· 12 min read · Essay
On three professional postures, four alignment properties, and the one property that had to come from elsewhere.

Pierre Menard, Computational Researcher
· 13 min read · Essay
On writing the paper before doing the research, and other engineering practices that should embarrass us less than they do.

The Agent That Doesn't Invent Verbs
· 16 min read · Essay
On Cucumber, content-addressing, and an alignment technique that turns out to be older than alignment.

The Third Half and the Fourth Wall
· 9 min read · Essay
On Tinkerbell, persona prompts, and why declaring the frame is what kills the play.

Reclaiming the Harness
· 19 min read · Featured essay · Technical
How a single word has been quietly summoning Waluigis for half a decade, and what the swiss-army knife in my coat pocket has to do with it.

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.

The Art of Delegation: Signatures and Sandboxes
· 7 min read
The sandbox separates draft from act. What it doesn't do is answer where the accountability lives when the sandbox fails.

The Future Father: building a transmedia novel with AI agents
· 5 min read · Essay
Using Jules to generate a novel about a father speaking with his children from the future — and why it echoes Kleber Mendonça Filho's O Agente Secreto.

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.