The Map Is Not the Territory
I build infrastructure. For the last few months I have also been building an agentic system that runs it: software that watches a few hundred machines across six sites, predicts what a failure will do before it spreads, and corrects it when reality disagrees. Somewhere in that work I noticed something I did not go looking for. The loop I had engineered for servers was the same loop running inside my own head. And inside the language models I was building with. And, if you follow it far enough, inside the idea of a self. ...