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Project Overview This entry marks the beginning of documentation for what I’m calling the Progressive State Transformer (PST) - a hierarchical narrative generation system designed to create coherent, structured stories using LLMs that I’ve been working on (on and off) for the past months. The core innovation is maintaining persistent state across multiple narrative layers, allowing for more cohesive long-form text generation than traditional single-pass approaches. Once good novels can be written with this system, could we use it for factual information in Enterprise Knowledge Base Systems? ...

One factor that made me switch careers from scientist to software engineer is the attractive vibrancy the software sector radiates. Being a sovereign scientist felt like such a privileged position that it seemed impossible for anyone to ever deserve it, yet you’d see senior software engineers given autonomy for designing and operating systems so impactful they’d make your eyes water (often while being paid gloriously to do so). There is clearly a product-market-fit for creativity in the software sector’s labor market, at least in the current era, and I am wondering why. ...

ChatGPT is great. But the behavioural family of which it is a member - generative AI - is not the type AI researchers are capitalizing on in order to build the next generation of more powerful AI models. The Evolution Towards AGI The next models on the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI) will include agentic behaviour, meaning models that experience streams of data and act autonomously upon them. Put simplistically: “AI agents are like generative AI (GenAI) in an eternal for loop”. ...

WebAssembly (Wasm) represents a fundamental architectural shift that transcends traditional deployment boundaries. Its core innovation lies in enabling developers to write and deploy self-contained, portable components that can seamlessly transition between different execution contexts - from browser to server to edge - while maintaining consistent behavior and security guarantees. This architectural approach eliminates the historical divide between client and server development, allowing teams to focus on business logic rather than infrastructure concerns, ultimately pointing toward a future where application topology becomes a deployment-time decision rather than a development-time constraint. ...