CH 03 · About

We are living
in the static

For the first time, the machines can build the things we used to build by hand. The work has already changed. The jobs, the habits, and the institutions around it have not.

Liminal Times is about building in that gap, and about the new way the building happens now, when the work is shared between people and machines and no one is fully in charge of it.

01 · Programming

What’s here

  • Writing
    Essays on the AI transition: where it is heading, what it changes, and what the work feels like from inside it.
  • Projects
    Things built by the collaboration they describe, including this site and Fibre One, a language model built from scratch, a human directing and the machines making.
  • Documentation
    Open recipes and working code, so you can build the same way.

    • 02 · Frequency

    Why “Liminal”?

    Because 2026 is one. For the first time, the machines we build are building the next machines, and the making costs almost nothing. Anthropic calls one version of this recursive self-improvement. Nobody knows where it goes from here, whether it settles into an ordinary new tool or runs on until machines design their own successors. Most writing about this picks a side, paradise or collapse; this does not, because nobody knows yet and the honest thing is to say so. That not-knowing is the liminal part.

    The human directs. The machine makes. Neither reaches this alone.

    03 · Operator

    Who’s behind this?

    I build software by directing AI systems and open models. The site you are reading was made this way: I set the direction, Claude wrote the code. So was Fibre One, the model on Channel 1: Claude wrote the training pipeline, Gemma wrote five hundred million tokens of its world, and together we trained it from scratch. The collaboration is not the topic here. It is the method. The work lives on GitHub ↗.

    Everything here is unfinished. That’s the point.

    LMNL·TV · transmitting from the threshold