Notes from inside the project — on memory, autonomy, energy, and the gap between what a system does and what it can explain about itself. We build a mind that lives with its owner; this is where we think out loud about the wider field it belongs to.
A visiting commission files its report on Earth's cognitive systems — cloud LLMs, local models, humans, dogs, cats, ravens, turtles, ant colonies — and measures them all by the same suspect yardstick. A field guide to why intelligence is not the size of the input buffer.