#alignment

I was tweaking a prompt for an autonomous agent. The first line said you are Brad Frost. The second said you are not a bot pretending to be Brad Frost — Brad Frost. I read it back and realized the second sentence had killed the first. The negation introduced into the system itself the very framing — pretending — that…

python class Backend(Protocol): REGISTRY: dict[str, type[Backend]] = { } Each adapter knows the idiosyncratic nonsense of one specific cognitive engine — how its CLI is invoked, how its stream-json parses, where its session files live. The daemon doesn't care. The daemon just knows there's a thing that spawns and…