When an agent is given tools and set to work on a task, it wakes up inside a world. Three essays on agents, worlds, and ontological hardness.

https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/19/thinking-inside-out/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Reviewing the design of OpenClaw, Gas Town, and Cantrip through the lens of ontological hardness and virtual world design.

https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/19/three-worlds-for-little-guys/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

There's a question that AI discourse avoids, probably because its too strange: what is it like, to be an agent, from the inside?

https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/19/hard-worlds-for-little-guys/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

When an agent fails, the first question is almost always about the model. Did it reason correctly? Was the prompt well constructed? Sometimes those are the right questions. But more often the better question is: what kind of world it was the agent inside of?

https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/19/ontological-hardness/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

New experience.computer is out!

In this episode I lead thinking-tool artisan, writer, and engineer
@marco-giancotti.bsky.social
(Aether Mug) through a series of imaginative exercises.

https://experience.computer/p/marco-giancotti

Writing for the Machines | Weeknotes 430

Maybe I should just admit to myself that all I really want, is for some small trace of me to live forever in the mind of the machine god?

https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/15/430-writing-for-the-machines/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

The newest episode of Permanently Moved is officially out! Monsters In The Mirror marks the shift to the new, expanded format.

https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/09/429-launch-and-the-climb/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Most people use AI as a chat interface. A tiny subculture has given it their credit cards, calendars, and inboxes and told it to just go and do things. Here's what that world looks like, and where it's headed.

https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/06/the-near-future-of-ai-agents/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social