Now: Clearing through the last heavy Claude fatigue to start exploring local models with designed workflows. Knowledge graphs were last year… next 18mo are gonna be neurosymbolic for me. Partly because AI seems to be plateauing and partly because AI as proto-positronic brain for narrow task machines seems underexplored.

I’m gonna need a bigger mind palace

These books — they have desires. They creep and sneak slowly onto my table until soon there is a pile. Each falling over another eager to have its interiority claim a bit of mine. Most are content with one such ride. Others, oh they jump over and over from the precipice of the bookshelf — where they inexplicably find themselves again and …

Now is perhaps the best time to write your version of the Essays in Idleness.

Recent weirdness with Opus has me convinced that I need to work with local LLM models — or at least with limited models — and experiment with better processes for production. In fact the advanced models may be nothing more than catalysts enabling much better use out of the small models.