I’m working on Descartes[^0]. First to help diagnose what’s wrong with a machine. Later to help manage and monitor it by letting an agent build layers of tailor-made deterministic rules and statistical models, a bit like the description of the ship’s AI at the beginning of Absolution Gap. And serve as an ops "point of contact" for other agents for the machine / fleet of machines it’s in charge of.

Sometimes I daydream that the end goal demo would be to set one up in a VM and let a sort of ransomware lose in it, and see if the agent can identify what’s going on and react in time.

But for now I’m fighting Apple notarization to enable local notifications on macOS.

[0]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/descartes