LLM Knowledge Base
Linked notes on learning systems, language study, and software work with LLM agents.
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Top of mind
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Whether the inner life that makes a written character read as a person is something a model can author
The Wound and the Lie · Round Characters and the Telling Detail · Human vs AI Capability Lens · Story Craft
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What stays human as the models match generativity
Human vs AI Capability Lens · Higher-Order Generativity vs Judgment · A Motorcycle for the Mind · The AI Industrial Revolution · Automation and the Job Iceberg
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What changes when the deliberate reasoning inside a model can be read and steered directly
Global Workspace and J-space · The workspace a language model thinks in · Human vs AI Capability Lens
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Whether the line between what humans and models own is fixed, or keeps shifting
Human vs AI Capability Lens · Higher-Order Generativity vs Judgment · The AI Industrial Revolution · The Floor Rose, the Ceiling Is the Job
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Where leaning on AI builds understanding
Understanding Bottleneck · Are You Thinking, or Just Consuming · The Screen Inferiority Effect
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If a generation offloads its thinking to AI, what are the second-order effects?
Epistemic Exceptionalism · The Shortcut Problem · The Age of Nonlinear Returns
Project Updates
- The Floor Rose, the Ceiling Is the Job
Vibe coding lowers the floor of who can build software, and anyone can ship a working app in an afternoon. The ceiling stays a job: whether the result is correct, secure, and worth building, judged by someone who knows what correct looks like.
- Doctrine With a Half-Life
AI advice rots fast, but not evenly. Splitting notes into invariants and dated tactics keeps them trustworthy: claims about what stays human in one section, today’s model-specific tricks stamped with a date in the other.
- Automation and the Job Iceberg
Sixty years of census data record exactly one job eliminated outright by automation. The rest were transformed or multiplied, and 60% of today’s jobs did not exist 50 years ago. Whether a role gets augmented or replaced turns on whether it can absorb responsibility.
- Mindset, Condensed
The mindset corpus compressed to doctrine: difficulty read as fuel, mistakes as the mechanism of improvement, motivation as startup fuel with defusion carrying the daily load, and gains judged by whether they compound.
- Usable Intelligence: Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8
For controlled-vocabulary authoring behind a fail-closed gate, Sonnet 5 becomes the default author at 0.6 times Opus 4.8's per-token price with near-identical first-pass gate rates, and Opus stays the orchestrator and the fallback for calls the gate cannot verify.
- Human vs AI Capability Lens
Every capability scores on two independent axes, Human and AI, each broken into five facets, and lands in one of four zones: Own, Augment, Delegate, or Low-leverage.
- Design Two-Track Extraction
Two design books split into an Agent Track of 66 executable UI rules and a Human Track of 35 taste-and-judgment calls.
- Story Cards as Memory Scenes
The dictionary's Story card becomes a single-character memory scene, carrying only the residue the Form card leaves: the arbitrary binding of components and the part of the sound the phonetic series does not predict.
- The First Principles of the Story Card
The rules a memory scene must obey reduce to two axes that generate every card: thirty character situations crossed with forty-two memory levers.
- The Story-Card Catalog
Those two axes generate thirty-four card archetypes, the working set a future authoring agent selects from and extends.