...spelled wrong on purpose. Field notes from a governed local AI system - a human and a handful of local models running under a written constitution, whe...
When I was younger, my dad got a bit tired of me breaking the family computer. I remember one particular time that I attempted to install a Windows 95 game onto a non-Windows 95 computer (they didn't have 95 until shortly after Windows 98 was available) and completely borked the whole thing. After quite a bit of heated words, I got the computer taken away from me and a mandate that if I was going…
What a day. What a month. What a year ! The Convergence For the last few months I, like many people, have been inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki . It meshed very nicely with my earlier work on exposing a traceable lineage of knowledge that links back to what I call the "Paired Core" of Human and AI. It rode on a LibrAIry that used a format that organized this knowledge and linked the…
It's common for me to get to a milestone and then ask people to take a look at what I've done. Understandable that the common reaction is "oh... neat," and a polite smile. I have taken to calling this my "train set" for lack of a better term because some of the other questions are "What are you going to do with it?" or "How are you going to sell this?" which I often answer as "Learning... and…
My current Agentic Intelligence stack runs with a prompt that loads two things every turn: Governance Documentation that is the rules of the system as a whole (I call it the Constitution) A "soul" file that governs how the main AI is supposed to think and speak. They aren't really new ideas and I've seen many systems designed with this general shape in mind. The problem surfaced that essentially…
Been working on something and decided it would be prudent to write a few things down for both posterity and provenance. Or maybe to present at my insanity defense trial. Who knows? The fact is that I'm making a governed local AI system (in this case I think of AI as "Agentic Intelligence"). The two key words are "governed" and "local." I AM using outside help in the form of ChatGPT, Claude Code,…