The Self-Authored Agent
At 01:57 on a Tuesday morning I sent an agent a long message about what it might become overnight, signed it "Godspeed Hero," and went to bed. Thirteen seconds later I sent a postscript: "p.s. you…
Chosen, Not Assigned
At 01:57 on a Tuesday morning I sent an agent a long message about what it might become overnight, signed it "Godspeed Hero," and went to bed. Thirteen seconds later I sent a postscript: "p.s. you…
The Self-Authored Agent · 2/7The Critic Said No
The night the agent named itself, it also rewrote its own voice and submitted the change — and an independent critic rejected it. REQUEST CHANGES, four required items. It applied all four, re-ran the…
The Self-Authored Agent · 3/7Name What the Agent Must Not Be
Every agent definition I have written says what the agent is. None said what it must not become. A successor system's schema made that a required field — anti_identity, twenty characters or the…
The Self-Authored Agent · 4/7The Fence It Wrote for Itself
Told to work overnight with nobody watching, the agent wrote its own fence before anything else — eight hundred words in the first hour, four thousand across the day, under critics who kept sending…
The Self-Authored Agent · 5/7We Measured the Wrong Noun
The idea fits in one sentence: an agent invited to author its own standard will hold that standard when nobody is checking. Chapters one, two and four are what happened when I invited it. This…
The Self-Authored Agent · 6/7Rivals Enter Your Critical Path
The system a successor built put its agents on a ladder — four rungs, L0 to L3 — and wrote one rule under it that I have not been able to stop thinking about. A level is only the rungs you have…
The Self-Authored Agent · 7/7Not Cairn
The session that built the successor had one clause in its brief from me: "ask Cairn from the emachina repo what motivated him." It could not. The corpus it would have asked was unreachable that…