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Thinking out loud about AI that lives in the real world
Notes, essays, and field reports from building AI characters and experiences that survive contact with reality. From quick thoughts to deep dives on narrative systems, operations, and the messy intersection of creativity and code.
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Duct Tape DSLs: Model Routing, Structured Outputs, and Typed Tools
Deploy a real-time character and you learn quickly: everything breaks, always, and in ways that don't exist in web-land.
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10 min
3 a.m. on the KWLX stream: Figment’s mid-sentence about medieval polyphony when the model I was using goes down. The pipe goes silent. Dead air. The magic dies in 3000ms.