Check what your AI cites, down to the page
grounded-forge is an open-source tool for AI assistants that answer only from sources you chose. Every citation opens the author’s sentence on the printed page, and code places every quotation. Tested against Gemini Notebook and Open Notebook.
A lineage tree, by the hour
My teachers, texts and courses as a Sankey chart: 11,500 hours of study, 41,000 of work, and a prompt to draw your own.
Agentics NZ wayfinding: what members said
What Agentics NZ members said about where the community goes next: survey votes, session quotes, and the first step, an online hackathon.
AI, taste and the quality without a name
Can AI have taste? Christopher Alexander and Eugene Gendlin help explore felt experience, AI slop and products that fit the people who use them.
Come Prepared to Die: Your Paradigms Were Survivable. AI Makes Them Lethal.
The paradigms most organisations run on were survivable when machines couldn’t replace people. AI changes that. The essay that became the book.
Just This: a practitioner’s meditation
My Alētheia teacher offered a different perspective in the middle of a hard week: not yes, not no, just this, whatever is actually facing me. A small distinction on the page, decisive in the body, and it turns out to be what Agile was pointing at all along.
An Open Letter to Stephen Wolfram and Spike Jonze
In 2017 I asked two people I admire to build a particular kind of machine. Working with Claude grounded in a 400-reference library, I now use something close to what I was asking for.
The Three Most Important Aspects of a Successful Product
Delight, value, and doing some good in the world: the frame I still use for products and AI tools alike. The “do good” part has only grown more central as the stakes rise.