Technical
git blame for your agent's memory
One wrong memory corrupts everything downstream that cites it, silently. The fix for untrustworthy memory is the one we already use for code: version control, plain text, and operations you can review.
Within Arm's Reach
The constraints that generate work are the ones with no opinion about it. Schoenberg, Shigeru Ban, the Apollo Guidance Computer, and an art school assignment about distance.
The Rope from the Inside
Once a constraint has been absorbed completely, mastery and imprisonment can feel identical from inside. On King Lear, a songwriter's hit, and the third channel I never shot.
Where the Feet Need to Be
The same constraint is a wall or a grammar depending on where the maker is standing. Oulipo, NTSC colour, and an LLM character who wouldn't stop drinking.
Why Your LLM NPCs Sound the Same (And How to Fix It)
How I reduced NPC dialogue repetition from 59% to 8-15% using config-driven novelty guards and action vocabularies
Part 2: Re-Clocking: What I Actually Did
What analog video taught me about trauma recovery. Part 2: Practice.
Part 1: The Timebase Corrector and the Traumatized Brain
What analog video taught me about trauma recovery. Part 1: Recognition.