"where did enough come from?"

the name comes from the idea that we already have enough useful and usable text manipulation tools, which, due to their component parts’ licensing schemes, distribution mechanisms, and offline functionality, will still be accessible in 20 or 100 years. things like linux, HTML, python, offline weights, the vast expanse of Apache 2.0/MIT-licensed repositories, etc.

ux-wise, i realized i wanted a frontend where i could see and influence as much of the input > reasoning > output pipeline as possible, and then i thought it would be cool to be able to edit the “agent’s” “brain” inline, and then …

well, then i realized whenever i see “things like this,” meaning workflows for agent-driven knowledge or technical work, be it on github or commercial products, they are set up to follow their authors’ preferred organizational and occasionally ontological paradigms … which to me usually seem, if not arbitrary, far from universal. at the very least, i would have to reconfigure some aspect of my natural working and thinking styles.

when corporations do this, it’s often to reduce the cost or complexity of support, which is admirable … for a business.

but i am not trying to sell a billion hours of compute per month by offering a gateway interface. like, ever. there are way too many companies and individuals trying to do that already, for one thing. i just want to help people write more personally and produce better work.

if supporting it (via http://enough.support) ends up costing too much money or time because enough is so popular and people are using it for lots of complex and heterogenous writing systems, then it should be reasonably “easy” to build a business out of that … provided the support cost is not due to cascades of unfixable product bugs, of course, which is always a possibility; bug reports warmly welcomed.

for now, i am genuinely excited to help users figure out what kind of skills or paradigms they need to build out in their enough systems in order to write what they want to write.

i’m also excited because i believe we as a civilization need a lot more authentic and personal human writing, and not only because i want to read more of it (though i do). it’s suddenly become far too tempting, and frictionless, to use LLMs to bleach the authentic personality off of our writing.

thus: by allowing (actually requiring for the most part) users to define and refine their own writing and editing paradigms, skills, and agent modalities both globally and per project, i believe enough will help people write better by their own standards.