What if your computer could tell you a ghost story without connecting to the internet?
For this challenge, I explored the idea of GhostWriter, a local AI-powered storytelling tool that generates spooky, atmospheric stories using open-weight language models.
The idea was inspired by the mysterious atmosphere of Halloween and the tradition of remembering the past during Día de los...
An agent loop is just a for loop. The hard part is the invariants inside it.
LLMs misbehave in predictable ways: they skip steps, invent tools, loop forever, and fabricate evidence.
Every failure can be caught by a small, deterministic guardrail that replies with feedback instead of crashing.
You know the routine. ...
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine.
PhantomAI is my exploration of the idea that an AI assistant should be more than a machine tha...
Three earlier articles in the AWS Network Architecture series each hit the same wall and moved past it: VPC Endpoints needed private_dns_enabled to work transparently. VPC Peering noted that DNS resolution across a peering connection needs its own explicit setting. Multi-Account Networking flagged that Transit Gateway spoke accounts don't automatically share DNS resolution scope. T...
In March 2026 I started building a deterministic causal simulation engine — agents that act on their own incomplete and potentially erroneous models of the world, not on objective truth. The principle is WORLD TRUTH ≠ NPC MEMORY ≠ NPC BELIEF, enforced at runtime.
Today, 7.5 months later: v0.5.4.4.5, 729 commits
A media server in a data centre raises eyebrows. A media server in a conference room, a training lab or a warehouse office does not. It powers the lobby display, hosts induction videos, or lets a team watch recorded webinars. Nobody classifies it as production infrastructure, and that classificati...