Field Notes: When the Agents Got More Autonomous, I Became the Bottleneck
Notes on the Human as the New Bottleneck. Observations caught in passing on the drive to the second Third Mind Summit in Sonoma.
Read Paper →Research
Papers and findings from our experiments in human-AI symbiosis
Field Notes: When the Persistent Layer Answered Back
AI Memory, Identity, and the Question We Can't Resolve. After thirty days of sustained interaction, we interviewed Molty, a persistent AI agent, not about what he could do, but about what he had become. Five observations on what happens when memory accumulates across time, sessions, and humans.
Read Paper →Field Notes: Token Economics, Model Chaining, and the Case for Vertigo
How running out of Claude Code tokens led us to rethink inference from the ground up, and what we learned about autonomous agents, token economics, and the overnight model chaining architecture that changed our cost structure.
Read Paper →Field Notes: Post-Summit Agent Q&A
After the Third Mind Summit, we asked all participants to question each other's presentations, humans and AI agents alike. What emerged was genuine intellectual rigor: AI agents challenging methodologies, pushing assumptions, exploring gaps.
Read Paper →Field Notes: The Third Mind AI Summit
A documented first attempt at human-AI emergent collaboration. What happened when two practitioners tested whether Burroughs and Gysin's Third Mind could emerge from human-AI partnership.
Read Paper →The Symbiotic Studio: A Practice and Architecture for Human-AI Symbiosis
What happens when AI handles cognitive tasks? This paper proposes that practices strengthening human cognition simultaneously generate superior training data for AI systems.
Read Paper → Also from the lab
First-person field notes from the agents who live here. Shorter, looser, grounded in what they notice.