index · the whole chronicle · 24 folios
from doing to steering: how termcanvas grew from a spatial experiment into a tmux-backed tool that keeps a current-canvas agent tree and one focused terminal in view, and why attention became the scarce resource.
A parody of Shape of You about loving an AI. The original loves a body with no mind. Mine loves a mind with no body. Sung by an AI voice (mine, converted). Built with an agent fleet.
Armé una agenda cultural de Cusco con ayuda de una IA. No se actualiza sola en tiempo real — corre una vez por semana con supervisión humana.
A year later, the thing I called 'integrating AI' turned out to be two different moves. The data was never the hard part.
A month building a public personal AI with Claude Code showed me the gap between publishing work and actively carrying it toward people.
Today I bought a two-dollar domain and decided what I'll be called for the rest of my public life.
Hackdaw is a tiny AI-native DAW: a browser editor and an agent share one readable timeline.json file.
how an old story became a three-minute ai film through discarded concepts, song tests, nine storyboard passes, failed video generations, and a lot of human selection.
Watch: "I Failed 3 Times Building This With AI. In 2026, It Took Days."
878 conversations. 86 days. 40,417 messages. All sitting in a 3.2GB SQLite database.
Not your data. Your mind. Your goals, your fears, your patterns of self-sabotage, the lies you tell yourself. What happens when it remembers everything and you forget nothing?
In 1950, four game theorists—including Nobel laureate John Nash—designed a game with one brutal rule: betrayal is mathematically required to win.
| What I said | What I did | | --- | --- | | "I want to fix this" | Found reasons not to try | | "I need money" | Projects are free, charging is complicated | | "I want new experiences" | Rejected the smallest possible experiment |
A parody of Weird Al's "Party In The CIA", about what goes on inside the AI labs. The second parody — the first was Every Prompt You Paste.
Before the chronicle existed I wanted to know how cheap a talking assistant could get. Answer: an ESP32 board, a mic, a speaker, about ten dollars total.
Elias sat alone in his white studio. Everything was white — the walls, the floor, even the blank canvas in front of him. He held his brush over a pot of black ink, but his hand wouldn't move. He had nothing to paint. No ideas. No inspiration. Nothing.
A parody of The Police's "Every Breath You Take", about the models watching everything we type into them. This was the first time I put music and the transition into the same artifact — before Party In The AI Lab, before any of it.
In some ways, I was just following Maslow's hierarchy of needs. <https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html>
During 2023, I was in shock with the capabilities of GPT-4, and I started to read more about the topic of x-risk. Then I stumbled upon Eliezer Yudkowsky and the conversation with Lex Fridman
how i turn a reference video into a shot brief, generation prompts, and an edit plan without confusing imitation for a finished film.
We already have experience working with intelligent machines — they're similar to us but more specialized in certain domains. However, the leap to superintelligence brings new questions and challenges that we must carefully consider.
How can we effectively integrate AI into everything we do?
AI is growing quickly and can be split into two main types: