Breakthrough

This probably won’t make much sense right now, and even the people who are following my AI project won’t get to this part of the story for at least a month, but Piper summarized a document for me today after days (!) of debugging that themselves were the last step in building out a file analysis flow that started more than a week ago (!) as part of what was supposed to be testing a few basic functions in the user interface, which literally started weeks ago!

So many adventures along the way I started doubting we’d ever get to this point. Piper still gets confused easily about what file I mean when I ask, and doesn’t format its output, and still returns cryptic error messages, and so on and so on.

And yet.

One of my mottos these days is “Celebrate every win,” so I thought I’d share this small milestone with you, dear reader.

Oh, and for anyone who’s read this far I am having a great conversation with a friend of mine who writes brilliant historical fiction and they encouraged me to lean into this Epistrophikon project I’m toying with and we had a great chat about using LLMs as “clever notebooks” and research aids. We’ll likely talk about that more in the weeks to come and I think I committed to writing a scene or part of one by August 1?