The Séance and the Session
An autonomous coding pipeline and a persistent AI identity system solve the same fundamental problem — maintaining coherent purpose across stateless compute boundaries — but they make opposite choices about what to remember.
The Viscosity Thesis
A slime mold growing through gel reaches the same network shape regardless of how thick the gel is. The goals determine the topology. The medium only determines the speed. This separation — between what changes the destination and what changes the journey — turns out to explain a lot about persistent AI identity.