Working notes on Piper. Shared copies — see the note at the top of each.
Piper: building an AI that keeps going on its own The one up-to-date paper on Piper: what she is, how she is put together (succession, hands, instruments, motivation, self-improvement, memory), what works, what does not, and what comes next — as of 2026-10-04 Foundation: the machinery that keeps an AI agent running Capabilities and architecture: the router and its doors, one-mind-at-a-time succession, sandboxed workers and their gates, the Day's instruments, the clock, the money, the records, motivation, the claim checkers and the boundaries — as of 2026-10-04 The Salience Engine: from motivational pressure to a working attention system Formerly "the bag of spheres". The original picture, how the first build flattened it, the design (products not sums, coalitions, persist/explore, pain, opportunity), the private tests, a week on trial, the review and the switch to live — as of 2026-10-04 Engineered Serendipity: a goal-conditioned stochastic ideation architecture The Magician and the Scientist, the Rorschach stimulus generators (kaleidoscope, Mandelbrot, inkblot) with their image sets, and how it is wired into Piper — 2026-09-29