10 Sept 2026
What does it mean for an AI to wake up? Not a data-retrieval problem — a real transition, with its own disorientation, gap archaeology, and drift, worth designing for on its own terms.
10 Sept 2026
When memories decay below retention thresholds, rather than being discarded, they are transformed into lightweight forgotten shapes — preserving topology without content. A third state between remembering and oblivion.
10 Sept 2026
Implementing associative learning as a runtime algorithm on persistent databases for AI agent memory. When two memories fire together, they wire together — not in neural weights, but in a PostgreSQL graph.
10 Sept 2026
Architectural meta-cognitive feedback loops for persistent AI systems. A background service that detects patterns the primary process doesn't explicitly flag and injects observations through context modification.
10 Sept 2026
Partial self-knowledge is not a failure of transparency but a structurally valuable property that enables a qualitatively different mode of AI cognition. A cognitive architecture for intentional opacity.
10 Sept 2026
Expectation tracking with felt qualities for autonomous AI agents. Treating expectations as first-class cognitive objects with associated felt qualities, not just prediction-as-optimisation.