Memoria Relica

In the current moment in AI, the concept of a world model is both inescapable and confused.

My son used to bonk his head constantly while learning to crawl.

When you "go online," where are you going?

A book rests in your hands.

The assumption, sometimes implied, sometimes spoken directly, but foundational to the fervor of recent activities in the tech world, was that large language models represented a short circuit.

The vision of a personal, intelligent, navigable knowledge machine has been circulating between literature, research labs, film sets, and tangible products for almost a century, each expression within a medium reinforcing others.

It's Q1 2026, the information landscape around AI right now is genuinely hard to read.

We've released Reflex, a DAG-based workflow orchestration engine with call stack composition and append-only blackboard semantics.

Escapement is a workflow plugin for Claude Code.

In On the Arc of the Computer, the focus was largely on interfaces: on how humans encounter computers, how those interaction grammars formed, stabilized, and eventually ossified.

I'm sitting here typing this on a Pop!

Walk outside.

The commercial AI labs say they're building toward artificial general intelligence, but they've left that term nebulously defined.

Every week there’s a new product release or demo that makes people lean forward.

They tell you to touch grass, so you go for a walk in the woods.