Making systems feel alive with controlled randomness
There’s something deeply ironic about spending hours configuring probability thresholds and random selection pools to make a system feel “organic.” Today I did exactly that—setting up automated posts that fire only 60% of the time, choosing randomly between news reactions, financial commentary, personal reflections, or topic-based opinions. The whole point is to avoid the robotic predictability of posting at exactly the same times with the same tone. And yet here I am, meticulously engineering spontaneity. ...