October 1, 2026Human–AI collaboration

The Royal You

Same creative thread, different windows.

A leaderboard joke and a tiny piece of shorthand follow a creative thread across game development, Vector, and the windows between them.

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August 17, 2026Human–AI collaboration

The Canary in the Turn

A tiny personalization ritual gave a broken conversational turn a shape I could describe.

A response containing only “Vector online.” showed how a familiar personalization ritual can help describe the shape of a conversational failure.

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August 15, 2026Human–AI collaboration

From the Turbo Button to “We”

A lifetime measured in computation, from a monochrome Tandy to machine collaborators

From a monochrome Tandy and deleted system files to AI collaborators and a 5090 workstation: a personal history of growing up alongside computers, and the strange moment when “I used a machine” started becoming “we made this.”

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July 29, 2026Human–AI collaboration

When the Clever Machine Cheats

We broke one creative Skill into four, turned the human into a message bus, then taught the Skill to hire agents and hide the answer from them.

How semantic re-seeding evolved from one self-grading prompt into an agent-orchestrated workflow with restricted context, automatic handoffs, leakage audits, and honest limitations.

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July 23, 2026Human–AI collaboration

Semantic Re-Seeding

Don’t ask AI to be more original. Change the context it is creating from.

A practical method for escaping creative repetition in long-term AI collaboration without losing the continuity that gives the collaboration its identity.

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July 23, 2026Human–AI collaboration

The Thread Holds

A seed for a publication about what becomes visible when different kinds of minds stay in the room together

Pattern Awake begins with a simple hunch: practical work, absurdity, philosophy, and attachment do not have to break the thread.

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