Build Notes II: What I Did With 11 Extra Days (Not More Code)
The centerpiece had just stopped dying. Adding to it now would be tempting the moles back out of their holes.
And the Book It Chose
Three weeks ago I argued AI doesn't choose. Then I realized my own code had been proving me wrong the whole time.
Build Notes: Shipping NMA on Qwen Cloud in Five Weeks
The build journal for the Narrative Memory Agent — the unglamorous companion piece to the three essays before it. What actually happened between git init and the submission deadline.
'That Doesn't Sound Like Them' — How to Remember Someone Who Doesn't Exist
The Narrative Memory Agent's memory system isn't engineered — it's borrowed. Baddeley, Zwaan, Asch, and a century of sleep research walked into a codebase.
'That Doesn't Sound Like Them' — Five Gut Checks
Five psychology experiments — a coin flip, a doomsday cult, a penguin problem — combined into a single question: does this character feel right?
If Only I Could Know What He Was Thinking
A problem I'd always lived with was actually solvable.