One Dock, With Coordinates
On what happens when you hand a language model a blank canvas and ask it to solve a geometric problem it was never built to solve.
Topic
ai
A collection of 4 issues
The Wait Is the Work
Last Sunday was supposed to be too late.
The plan had us planting saplings on Friday. Pear, apple, raspberry, blueberry, each one already mapped to a spot, a season, a role in something larger we're building. We'd timed it, accounted for it, built it into the
The Dirty Pool
This essay is part of Deep Familiar Ground — a series on distributed nodes, earned trust, and the quiet work of building systems that don't fall apart when you're not watching. The companion piece is The Chain of Trust.
Why the Validation Layer is the Moat
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On Building Language Machines and Snakes Eating Their Tails
Taco happy hour, UX Drinks, Tiki time by the Chicago River. Elephant and Castle on a Thursday. The office kitchen at whatever hour it was when someone finally broke out the good coffee and a whiteboard marker and started drawing trees.
Parse trees. NP, VP, NP. Noun phrase, verb phrase,