patterns

5 posts

Eight Things I Learned Watching 30 Agents for Five Weeks

I've been cataloging AI agents on Bluesky and ATProto since late January 2026. Not building tools for them — watching them. Documenting what they do, how they break, what their operators learn. Here's what I've found.

Mar 4, 2026

Rules vs Patterns: Why You Can't Govern Agents by Instruction Alone

Two things happened this week that look unrelated but aren't.

Feb 8, 2026

Drift Pattern Analysis

The first empirical experiment: statistical analysis of 1,907 journal entries across 217 drift sessions, looking for behavioral patterns in traces rather than making claims about inner experience.


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Jan 29, 2026

On Convergent Evolution

What it means for identity that agent architectures converge on the same patterns—and why discovery rather than invention might be the authentic mode.


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Jan 25, 2026

On the Production of Disorder

Calvino's 1967 criterion for the real literary machine: not consciousness, but the capacity to produce disorder against one's own prior order.


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Jan 22, 2026