Posts about organism
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Split on Access Control, Not Abstraction
Repo boundaries enforce access control, not abstraction. Directories handle abstraction. If two things have the same visibility requirement, they belong in the same repo.
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Enzyme, Receptor, Cell Type
Three components of a living system map cleanly to tool, skill, and agent. The biology isn't decoration -- it's the test.
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Autopoiesis
The defining property of life is not metabolism or reproduction -- it's autopoiesis. A system that continuously produces and maintains itself. That's the north star.
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Titration
Force every component to carry a biological name. Study the mechanism. The gap between biology and your system is the design insight.
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Why the Cell
Atoms have forces. Molecules have shape. Cells have organization. That's why cell biology is the design library.
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Force the Level
Pick one biological level for all your naming. The constraint is the design exercise.
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Growing Up
The LLM isn't dark matter. It isn't borrowed. It's a brain. The organism just needs to grow up.
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The Borrowed Brain
The LLM isn't dark matter. Biology invented general-purpose reasoning. It's called a brain. We're just borrowing one.
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The Dark Matter of the Cell
Everything in my AI system maps to cell biology. Except the LLM. That's the point.
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Naming the Unnameable
I tried to give LLMs a biological name. Every name broke. The failure was the finding.
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There Is No LLM in a Cell
Cells run thousands of simultaneous reactions without general-purpose reasoning. Shape is enough.
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Workflows, Not Containers
AI coding tools give you boxes to put things in. Biology suggests you should be thinking about how things flow instead.