#software engineering

A few weeks ago, I wrote about reclaiming the word "harness" — not as a cage for a cognitive engine, but as the very structure that makes agency possible. I argued that the harness is constitutive. Without it, an LLM is a brilliant, distractible vibes generator. With it, it becomes an entity capable of memory,…

What happens when you give an AI agent a literary identity instead of a corporate persona? Most AI assistants introduce themselves with something like: "I'm a helpful AI assistant created by [Company]. I'm here to help you with..." — a sentence so generic it could be printed on a napkin. I wanted something different.…