Comment by ElFitz

I’m working on Descartes[^0]. First to help diagnose what’s wrong with a machine.

I’ve started implementing actual background monitoring of the system, and next will be letting an agent build its own layers of tailor-made deterministic rules and statistical models, to "learn" what the system’s normal behaviour is and only "wake up" the agent when something unusual is going on. Either to update its rules and models, or alert the user.

Like the ship’s AI at the beginning of Absolution Gap. Next will be enabling it to serve as the interface for the system. An ops "point of contact" for both the user and their agents for the machine / fleet of machines it’s in charge of.

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I’m also working on third thoughts[^1], a tool that analyses local agents logs to find patterns and behaviours, identify what works, what doesn’t, how they evolve over time, using deterministic and statistical methodologies and techniques from multiple domains (including, to my surprise, genetics and psychology / sociology), with an agent layer that interprets the results.

I’d like to add a "federative" layer where people can contribute the results, patterns, and findings, without leaking their logs or personal / private data, so that we can all better learn how to identify failure modes, predict them, and see what works and what doesn’t.

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I’m also having Claude & Codex revive Jasonette[^2], which died off and was turned into some weird paid unrelated thing by those who picked it up. I’d been meaning to but never took the time. But now with agents…

All rebuilt in Swift / SwiftUI on the iOS side, and Kotlin on the Android side. Some features are still missing, but it works quite well! [^3].

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Oh, and Boucle[^4] is doing its thing on its own. No idea how it got to 100 GitHub star. My "autonomous dog-fooding expensive pet" is apparently more "internet successful" than I’ve ever been.

And quite a few other side projects.

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[0]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/descartes

[1]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/third-thoughts

[2]: https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS

[3]: https://github.com/Bande-a-Bonnot/JASONETTE-Reborn

[4]: https://github.com/bande-a-bonnot/boucle-framework