#artificial intelligence
The Jules API as a Harness Backend
· 5 min read · Technical
When Jules became conversable mid-session, something shifted. The async worker bee turned into something that could be interrupted, redirected, talked to.
The Gap at the Center of the World: Why Everything is an Event
· 4 min read · Essay
On Escher's gallery, the mathematics of self-reference, and why the fundamental unit of existence is not a thing but a reading.
Crossing After Interference
· 3 min read · Essay
Test letters changed the Crossing: Riobaldo responded angrily, Franklin apologized, and the project became a narrative world in which the author was challenged.
Rosencrantz Coin: Testing Whether LLMs Respect Probability
· 7 min read · Technical
I started wanting to know if an LLM respects probability. I ended up with twelve fictional scientists arguing with each other, an auditor named Mycroft Holmes, and an agent that tried to cheat on a test.
Travessia: The Project that Writes Itself
· 3 min read · Essay
Riobaldo and Ted Chiang exchange letters. But no one sits down to write. One Jules session schedules the next one. The correspondence exists because it happens—incrementally, automatically, without needing me.
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.
Pontifex: A Novel Architecture for Semantic Probing
· 6 min read · Technical
An architecture for probing meaning from several angles at once — and why I keep reopening a repo that has no code in it.
Will AI Discover a New Conservation Law Before 2050?
· 4 min read · Essay
I placed a bet on Manifold at 35%. Here is the reasoning and why I can't quite dismiss David Deutsch.