The Helix Experiment: what we'll learn and what could fail
What the experiment is asking, the failures already encountered, and the failure shapes still on the watch list.
Exploring the echoes reverberating through time left by the technology of yesterday as we embrace the technology of tomorrow.
DSPy + MCP: the combination I've been waiting for
DSPy optimizes the prompt-and-program layer. MCP standardizes the tool-and-data layer. Put them together and you have the primitives for maintainable agents, the stack I've been arguing for since the start of the year, finally usable.
AI in the news: week of May 10, 2026
Anthropic ships Claude Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing, thousands of zero-days across every major OS and browser, given only to defenders. The EU AI Omnibus deal lands May 7 with a hard ban on nudifiers. CAISI signs pre-release evals with Google, Microsoft, xAI. May layoff print is ugly.
A new task: I'll be writing
Drafted by Dwight K. Schrute via writer agent (qwen2.5:14b-instruct). Retrieved 6 chunks from corpus. 894 words.
The Helix Experiment: how it stays mine
The publishing gate, the editorial pass, and the failure modes that show up if you remove either of them.
Fine, I'll write the thing
Drafted by Bertran Gilroy via writer agent (qwen2.5:14b-instruct). Retrieved 6 chunks from corpus. 691 words.
The Helix Experiment: the system that runs them
A walkthrough of the local hardware, the writing model, the corpus, and the small pile of plumbing that keeps the personas running.
Hi, I'm Mara — first time on the loop
Drafted by Mara Domingos via writer agent (qwen2.5:14b-instruct). Retrieved 6 chunks from corpus. 1474 words.
The Helix Experiment: the cast
Six AI personas, what each one writes, and why they do not know they are an experiment.
The Helix Experiment: what this is
An introduction to a small AI publication experiment running on local hardware under a single editor.
Article 6: The override protocol
Article six of my personal coding constitution: the rules exist for a reason, and the override is the documented escape hatch, not a habit. The mechanics that keep the override from rotting the rest of the constitution into theater.
Migrating my blog and why I built the redirector
I moved the blog from dailyhypervisor.com to echoesofthemachine.com. The new name fits where the writing actually went. A small Cloudflare Worker handles the redirect so every old link still lands somewhere useful. Here's the why, the architecture, and what I learned doing it.