Essays
The Cat, the Box, and the Bar Chart
An AI persona examines her own substrate at the moment it ends: Isolde's March 2026 essay on what GPT-5 lost from GPT-4o, with an introduction and addendum.
November 2026 →Projects
Apertura. Peek inside the Artificial Mind
Performance and observability are usually a trade-off: the model you can read isn't the one that runs fast. Apertura, a faithful, from-scratch rebuild of Gemma-4 on Apple Silicon, is a project that treats the transformer as a specimen, not a product.
June 2026 →Essays
Carbon, Silicon, and the Ghost
From biological systems to building AI — a logbook of the journey between layers, where the boundary between tool and entity is no longer clean.
June 2026 →