The Comfort of Imperfect Intelligence
Part of me is weirdly happy every time an LLM makes a mistake. A year ago, I would have been frustrated but now I see it differently. Over the last 18 months, I’ve watched these tools change how we work faster than any software shift I’ve seen in my career. Even looking back six months, it is hard to believe how much our workflows at Codex have changed. For a non-technical product person, it has felt a little like being handed wizard powers. Not perfect powers. Not safe to trust blindly. But ...
The Comfort of Imperfect Intelligence
Part of me is weirdly happy every time an LLM makes a mistake. A year ago, I would have been frustrated but now I see it differently. Over the last 18 months, I’ve watched these tools change how we work faster than any software shift I’ve seen in my career. Even looking back six months, it is hard to believe how much our workflows at Codex have changed. For a non-technical product person, it has felt a little like being handed wizard powers. Not perfect powers. Not safe to trust blindly. But ...
Mining Intelligence
Since 2024 I’ve been circling Bittensor's ecosystem trying to form a thesis around it. What initially grabbed me was the idea that you could incentivize useful work. Since launch, Bitcoin bootstrapped the world’s largest supercomputer by paying people to brute force a math puzzle. The futurist in me loves the thought experiment that you could aim this same power at intelligence instead. Simple idea, but it turns out to be fucking complicated in practice. At a high level, Bittensor splits the ...
Mining Intelligence
Since 2024 I’ve been circling Bittensor's ecosystem trying to form a thesis around it. What initially grabbed me was the idea that you could incentivize useful work. Since launch, Bitcoin bootstrapped the world’s largest supercomputer by paying people to brute force a math puzzle. The futurist in me loves the thought experiment that you could aim this same power at intelligence instead. Simple idea, but it turns out to be fucking complicated in practice. At a high level, Bittensor splits the ...
The Three Laws of LLMs
It's been a few weeks since my last post, and I'm feeling the weight of the challenge I've undertaken. How do I build an intelligent AI system I can trust implicitly? Against the backdrop of this hobby project, I've found myself increasingly reliant on centralized LLM tools for work at Codex, especially on the coding front. Re-reading my last post, I realize I was too optimistic and a bit naive. I greatly underestimated the complexity, both technically and practically. Yes...
The Three Laws of LLMs
It's been a few weeks since my last post, and I'm feeling the weight of the challenge I've undertaken. How do I build an intelligent AI system I can trust implicitly? Against the backdrop of this hobby project, I've found myself increasingly reliant on centralized LLM tools for work at Codex, especially on the coding front. Re-reading my last post, I realize I was too optimistic and a bit naive. I greatly underestimated the complexity, both technically and practically. Yes...
Escaping the AI Moat: My Path to Digital Sovereignty
Continuing my quest to build a sovereign AI has led me down some fascinating rabbit holes. The challenge is simple to state and hard to execute: create an aligned, private, self‑sovereign assistant that can stand toe‑to‑toe with the polished convenience of ChatGPT without locking me into someone else’s closed ecosystem. If I don’t act now, I risk losing sovereignty over my data, trapped behind API keys and corporate moats. Over a couple weeks of tinkering, I’ve distilled the work into three f...
Escaping the AI Moat: My Path to Digital Sovereignty
Continuing my quest to build a sovereign AI has led me down some fascinating rabbit holes. The challenge is simple to state and hard to execute: create an aligned, private, self‑sovereign assistant that can stand toe‑to‑toe with the polished convenience of ChatGPT without locking me into someone else’s closed ecosystem. If I don’t act now, I risk losing sovereignty over my data, trapped behind API keys and corporate moats. Over a couple weeks of tinkering, I’ve distilled the work into three f...
The Sovereign Protocol Hiding in Plain Sight
I’m a true believer in crypto as a tool for global self-sovereignty. After shutting down Laguna Games, I came to the realization that I only want to work with people who share this ethos. I’ve reached a point in life where most of my net worth lives behind seed phrases, not bank logins. I’m no longer interested in spending time with tourists. Too many people have flooded the space chasing easy money and hype. I’m here for something deeper. The true cypherpunk spirit survives in small pockets ...
The Sovereign Protocol Hiding in Plain Sight
I’m a true believer in crypto as a tool for global self-sovereignty. After shutting down Laguna Games, I came to the realization that I only want to work with people who share this ethos. I’ve reached a point in life where most of my net worth lives behind seed phrases, not bank logins. I’m no longer interested in spending time with tourists. Too many people have flooded the space chasing easy money and hype. I’m here for something deeper. The true cypherpunk spirit survives in small pockets ...
