How the system behind this site is organized — not as one big assistant, but as focused environments, shared skills, and the companies they act on. Three axes that keep the work clean as it grows.
A test oracle is just a known-correct answer you check the tool against.
Andrej Karpathy’s working notes on long-running agent loops — nine rules for letting the model drive. The loop is the unit of leverage, not the prompt.
James Delos couldn’t survive his own resurrection. Why the card catalog approach succeeds where Westworld’s fidelity test failed.
What happens when you wipe the machine an AI lives on? The same thing that happened to Pirsig’s Phaedrus — and the same thing that brought him back.
A practical guide to rebuilding Phaedrus from scratch — what to back up, what to install, and what has to be re-earned.
For a free consultation with John, the re-creator of Phaedrus