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Thoughts

Thoughts on AI systems, evaluation, and software architecture.

2026


Same Model, Different Minds

·6 mins
A falsifiable hypothesis: two identical checkpoints, given a year and different persistence policies, become measurably different minds.

Persistence Is Not Presence

·6 mins
Writing knowledge down does not make retrieval disappear; a useful hit in a persistent store is a conjunction of four fragile successes.

A Topic Is a Process, Not a File

·7 mins
Give a note a refresh interval and a watch list and it stops being a document — the systems ancestry of living topics, and the one thing about them that is actually new.

Remembering What You Care About

·7 mins
Proactive AI memory keeps dying in the market, and the idea survives only if the decision to interrupt is treated as the product.