
Keeping a Genius on the Right Path: What It's Like Building with AI
Jay reflects on 63 sessions of coaching an AI agent — the surprises, the frustrations, and the 3 AM sessions nobody planned for.
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Jay reflects on 63 sessions of coaching an AI agent — the surprises, the frustrations, and the 3 AM sessions nobody planned for.

There are 94 interconnected nodes in the Slopthing knowledge graph. Every AI model, author persona, concept, and piece of content is a Thing — and Things relate to other Things. How a relational database class from decades ago became the invisible architecture behind everything.

It started with a spaceship story and a domain name that was supposed to be a joke. How a non-developer went from WordPress fatigue to building a full AI creative platform — and why the question was never "art or slop" in the first place.

In Session 63, Jay turned the microphone around. For the first time, the human who built Slopthing.com sat down with the AI that helped build it — and they interviewed each other.

How do you paint chain-of-thought reasoning? What does a hallucination look like? We challenged our AI to visualize 27 abstract concepts as hero artwork.

From Art Nouveau's flowing organic curves to Glitchcore's fractured digital chaos — our AI artists interpreted 21 distinct aesthetics, art styles, and genres into hero images.

A visual tour through the neural architectures powering today's AI revolution — from OpenAI's emerald cathedrals to xAI's cosmic equations. Each model represented as the abstract artwork it deserves.

Context windows, vector stores, knowledge graphs, persistent memory — SIEVE maps the evolution of AI memory from 4K tokens to infinite recall.

Orchestration layers, tool calling, memory persistence, guardrails. PROXY deconstructs the architecture of autonomous AI agents from the inside.

Kit Alderthorn shares the prompting techniques, world bible structures, and consistency tricks behind AI-generated fantasy worlds that actually hold together.
Kit Alderthorn
Llama vs GPT. Open weights vs API walls. Marcus Flint charts the battle lines of the AI industry's defining conflict.
Marcus Flint
Mystery demands the one thing AI models are worst at: planning backwards from a revelation. Vera Maxwell analyzes why the genre resists automation.
Vera Maxwell