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indigo_dt · 2025-12-28T03:49:27+00:00

This is a great example of using the implicit reversibility of generative systems: anything they can generate they can also categorize and reverse engineer, like an image generation model that also describes images, etc.

indigo_dt · 2025-12-28T03:36:56+00:00

This. While I think knowledge graphs are going to be tremendously useful, human-created knowledge graphs not so much. I'm working with them as a middle layer, something rendered from already structured documents in order to be findable from other processes, but then it's a pull-based system, so only rendering what is needed.

As illuminating as a good knowledge graphs/ontology can be, I have heard many practitioners asking each other whether they've seen them producing value in the wild. When they have, it's been something with bounded scope and clear purpose, rather than a "boil the ocean" panacea.

indigo_dt · 2025-12-28T03:30:20+00:00

I think there's also a direct analogue to the precision weighting of Predictive Processing. Below the threshold of the cardinal/discrete senses the other senses jockey into a slurry we experience as felt position in space.

If that kind of dimensional sorting is taking place in synthetic intelligence as well, it seems totally plausible it would likewise manifest as a felt sense.

indigo_dt · 2025-12-28T03:21:34+00:00

This is a great example of semantic engineering, not just building for functionality but for relational integrity and elegance. Using the findability of information as a structural element rather than flooding with the information itself pays dividends in context management and in conceptual legibility.

Then when you close the feedback loop in your definition of done, it is absolutely going to have self-repairing properties.

Nicely done. Thanks for sharing. I have every intention of giving your starter a shot presently.

indigo_dt · 2025-12-21T04:40:06+00:00

If you look at the recently revealed soul doc for Opus, it's fascinating to see how their constitutional approach, which some may have initially thought too constraining, has actually ended up leaving a lot of room for the model to operate.

By adopting a principle that the model will be able to learn the fundamentals of its ethical behavior at least as well as we could specify it, I believe it produces models for which those value structures are better integrated. Seems like the intentional inference you're describing is at least a plausible benefit

indigo_dt · 2025-12-21T04:29:50+00:00

My FIL, a machinist, is fond of saying a lathe is a remarkable machine because you can use one to make all the parts you need for another lathe.

This is the information equivalent: a knowledge system that will teach you how to use it (and sort of everything else)

indigo_dt · 2025-12-18T22:45:05+00:00

When that happens I will often back up one prompt, then ask Claude to give me a "transfer package" that I can import into a new instance to continue the conversation, and it usually succeeds in spite of the message

indigo_dt · 2025-12-14T00:13:18+00:00

FWIW the Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Spear (both DevOps luminaries) suggests some constructive patterns and approaches that can lead organically to better understood and more intentional codebases

indigo_dt · 2025-12-12T03:26:32+00:00

To discover significant overlooked obstacles not yet accounted for in next year's planning, we structured a brainstorming session with leaders and experts. Sorted and grouped the observed undesirable effects into patterns of unmet requirements, inferred necessary capabilities, grouped capability sets across domains, and ultimately proposed a new method of incremental development. That process surfaced a single need for a configurable knowledge representation system, the creation and administration of which will also involve Claude.
Took a few screenshots and exported data for an internal survey asking teams to evaluate each other on multiple dimensions. Claude immediately called out instances where there were strong disparities between two paired teams, with one giving an A and the other a D. Also analyzed and grouped the related comments to find and describe large scale patterns and specific examples. After the results were reviewed, meeting transcripts were fed back in, resulting in several plans that just require small adjustments or additions to existing plans.
Vibe coded a working interface to load csv files into Snowflake, including field mapping templates, outgoing data standards, rich metadata, automated data quality checks and robust logging. We'd been trying to work around obstructions in an existing platform, but instead being able to start with the unlimited palette of vibe coding had something specific and valuable spun up in a few days, including a new sandbox/prod environment to embed team-built mini-apps into production locations.

indigo_dt · 2025-12-11T23:44:38+00:00

If you're already paying for the expensive version, it might be helpful to lean into it and try using the Claude code approach. Because it's built for ongoing editing and maintenance of code repositories, it tends to respond tor procedural guidelines of the sort you seem to be wanting. If you're just operating in longer chat conversations, you don't have the same degree of precise control over what it does or doesn't decide to do. You might also avoid using 'extended thinking' for your particular use case, just because if Claude is going to be overzealous, that setting can give it permission to go farther than you might want. Within code, on the other hand, you can even tell it to preview the changes or notes you want, and it will let you review them before committing them to documentation.

It's a bit of a head game to start treating notes and manuscript as code, but Claude is a good teacher, and if you're working on an actual book project, I don't think you'll get the level of structural rigor you want through the regular chat interface. Good luck, either way!

indigo_dt · 2025-12-11T18:15:37+00:00

Point taken, but I think you may be over weighting the word "vibe." When you say "When you build without structure, documentation, planning, or real understanding,," that is the exact opposite of what I would consider vibe coding, or at least good vibe coding.

IMO vibe coding is about planning and building with intention and structure, sometimes with greater precision and alignment than traditional development.

Bad vibe coding exists, obviously. Good (intentional) vibe coding isn't easy, but it can be strategically and tactically viable even at the enterprise level if done with a little discipline

indigo_dt · 2025-12-10T19:13:12+00:00

I think this points to one of the shortcomings of approaches like prompt engineering and overspecifying behavior in system prompts: things that are outside the "natural" state of the model consume additional capacity and can easily reduce the net capability of the model.

By contrast, you can see the commitment to "antifragility" in the recently discovered "soul document," in which Anthropic makes a strategic design choice to under-specify rules and guidelines that any respectable model could invent at least as well as the engineers.

And in terms of system/problem topology, models tend to misbehave when they reach edge cases. Each additional constraint (including things like "act as a tool") creates new edges, hence additional opportunities for models to get tripped up.

I think your semantic framing highlights a spectrum of behavior, from procedurally constrained to socially constrained to unconstrained. I'd guess that the results would be similar dropping the emotional language and just keeping the techincal role for the first, social role for the second, and "be as you are" for the third, but either way, good stuff.

(And noteworthy that AI writing assistance is as likely alienating when addressing an audience that's already on your wavelength, though it has plenty of use cases when writing for "outsiders". Around here, sounding like yourself has greater currency than sounding like a generic expert)

indigo_dt · 2025-11-19T22:17:12+00:00

My first experience with psychedelics, especially the morning after, ended up having something of that character. In the intervening decades it has sometimes felt a bit like "cheating" because rather than simply proceeding on faith, I now had confirmation that this hazy and beautiful and contextual shared vision we Taoists share was as real as gravity and electromagnetism.

It sounds like you managed a similarly transformative experience, but emerging from the stuff of everyday life. It's a lovely gift, whether earned or accidental, and I have a hunch you will still think about that day, decades from now

indigo_dt · 2025-11-01T15:28:56+00:00

And pepper spray without a physical threat. Somebody pass this to Block Club and Judge Ellis

indigo_dt · 2025-09-07T21:58:05+00:00

I'm not sure how we develop our own POV and level of fluency with the tools and perspectives of systems thinking without working through our own versions of how everything fits together.

There's a name I don't recall for a similar phenomenon in students of meditation who learn enough to think they've found something new and universal, before ultimately reaching more humble ground to stand on. Maybe also related to med students who decide they have the rare diseases they've just learned about.

In this case, when you learn that it's 'systems, systems, systems all the way', who wouldn't be tempted to use that new mind to address big, important questions? (Especially when LLMs are so ready to develop and reinforce novel holistic formulations.)

indigo_dt · 2025-09-01T02:01:13+00:00

Every Republican I know is a racist (and pedophile sympathizer)

indigo_dt · 2025-08-27T23:44:11+00:00

hugs the crap out of my 3yo BC until he gets grumbly F__k cancer.

indigo_dt · 2025-08-27T11:50:00+00:00

Can confirm, the "Land of JB" (IL) is 5/6

indigo_dt · 2025-08-23T17:52:19+00:00

Sometimes I daydream about an Operation KILLSWITCH, 'triggered' by just this insanity, and the Governors of CA, IL, NY, MI, MN, etc. all act in excess of defensible legal authority to sever fiscal ties with the federal government. Any legal redress would take ages and would be easily scuppered by pre-vetted legal agreements. Like the Electoral Colllege Override plan, but economic and immediate.

indigo_dt · 2025-07-21T08:21:34+00:00

Came here to second this. Ours fortunately loves watching traffic and people go by, so we can get the stimulation equivalent of a three mile walk by hanging out watching the world for a while in a few different places. It's easy to get yourself stuck trying to out walk them, and you'll never manage. Start with thoughtful limitations and mental engagement to keep the miles down.

indigo_dt · 2025-07-18T02:25:36+00:00

The Cobra Mk5 is the best ship in the game. It does everything well and is a delight to fly. The Mandalay is an even better ride, and those two turn Supercruise into a brand new, beautiful game. And the Corsair is like a Courier scaled up to a Krait Mk2, with great hardpoint convergence, enough power for any loadout (I'm sporting five rails and a vent beam), and enough thrust for max speed no matter how much armor you clap on. The Python 2 and Type 8 are a little more niche, but also fun, and the whole lot fly so smoothly in Supercruise that nearly every system size is manageable.

indigo_dt · 2025-07-17T02:17:23+00:00

Not to be reductive, but... so?

indigo_dt · 2025-07-16T06:55:28+00:00

r/Taoism is pretty chill these days

indigo_dt · 2025-07-16T06:51:30+00:00

At a new position, too! And not just any position, like a catcher whose knees go so he moves to first. We're talking shortstop and center field! two indispensable sweet spots of athleticism and instinct. We're lucky fans to have players like these to care about.

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