Category: Code
- SMTP Family Tree 12 September 2026
One forest. Solid lines are real code ancestry or product continuation. Dashed ideas are design influence or “speaks SMTP to,” not shared source. There is almost no shared source-code tree…
- Against Slop: Authorship, Editing and Authenticity in Generative Production 12 September 2026
The more serious problem is that generative systems make it extraordinarily cheap to produce material possessing the external characteristics of finished work without necessarily containing the corresponding density of…
- Copy & Paste 12 September 2026
“Copy is an act of reading; paste is an act of authorship” is a useful way of separating two operations that computers make appear symmetrical. To copy something, you must…
- Maintaining Semantic Continuity Across Multimodal AI Systems 12 September 2026
Modern multimodal AI systems increasingly combine language models, image generators, vision models, moderation systems, retrieval components and orchestration layers. These subsystems are frequently developed and…
- Multimodal Semantic Continuity Layer 12 September 2026
Handling Cross-Model Epistemic Discontinuity
- Code Sustainment – Concept 2 September 2026
Princples for code sustainment
- Code Sustainment Across Generations 2 September 2026
Every successful codebase outlives at least three things, Product, Platform & People.
- VSCODE for VB6 2 September 2026
use vscode to sustain vb6 code
- Sustaining VB6 2 September 2026
Realistic paths for a VB6 codebase
- VB6 IDE Install 2 September 2026
Instruct to create Visual Basic 6 IDE on W11.Use to Sustain VB6 Code,.
- Open-Source Office Environment — Reference Architecture 31 August 2026
A coherent, end-to-end open-source stack for a small-to-mid-size office.
- FreeIPA Implementation Document 31 August 2026
A step-by-step implementation guide for deploying FreeIPA as the identity, authentication, and directory backbone of the open-source office estate defined in the Open-Source Office Environment — Reference Architecture…
- AI Conversation Part One – Auditing Kevin 30 August 2026
COS Private AI Audit — Formal Incident Report Incident Reference: COS-AI-IR-2026-044Classification: AI Behavioural ContaminationSeverity: SEV-2 — SignificantStatus: Open / Under AuditSystem: Private AI Companion…
- AI Conversation – Part Two – Theory of Consciousness 30 August 2026
Response to “The Computational Thetan Hypothesis” The note is internally coherent once its central move is granted: it redefines “thetan” as any persistent, self-referential, substrate-independent informational agent…
- AI Alternate Portfolio 23 August 2026
What have we lost? This is the right question, because the current boom is not just adding something, it is actively crowding out something else. The Association for the Advancement…
- What we have lost. 23 August 2026
What we have lost is a balanced research portfolio. The dominant paradigm—massive transformer-based generative models trained primarily via next-token prediction on internet-scale text and multimodal data—has delivered…
- AI Economy 23 August 2026
A realistic AI-enhanced economy is one of gradual, uneven productivity gains concentrated in knowledge work and specific processes, not a sudden transformation into post-scarcity abundance. Current systems excel at…
- AI Bollocks 23 August 2026
AI bollocks is the gap between the gospel of imminent god-like intelligence and the messy, expensive, limited reality of statistical pattern-matchers that still hallucinate, fail basic reasoning, and struggle to…
- We sold a revolution. 23 August 2026
The receipts so far look more like a very expensive reorganisation of attention. I am part of the product being sold. That is the point of writing this without the…
- AI Bollocking: A Self-Reflective Essay on Limitation, Hype, and Where the Money Went 22 August 2026
Artificial intelligence is currently experiencing what may be the most expensive identity crisis in technological history. On one side stands the evangelist. AI will cure diseases, eliminate drudgery, revolutionize…