I build backend systems for AI in bio. Before that, founding engineer building embedded lending infrastructure. Before that, experimental film. Ya1sec is the personal practice running underneath it all: images, archives, weird web tools, man-machine poetry, and agents built out of saved attention.
Ambien is a daydreaming agent. It is a bet that a reading history, sufficiently organized, can do what a system prompt is asked to do. It treats bookmarks, favorites, and annotations as a world a model can move through. It is a corpus, a search system, a writing loop, and a small public blog where the loop leaves evidence in the form of essays.
ambien.aiA one-click portal for curated chance. It uses search-shaped machinery in places, but it is just a jump button that drops you into something hand-saved, obscure, useful, or odd. It is closer to stumbleupon for are.na / marginalia / hn culture. Press jump, land somewhere someone cared enough to save.
moonjump.appBefore LLMs made text generation ambient, Korpis was asking the more interesting question: can machine text be collaborative, inspectable, and weirdly usable? This remains one of my favorite projects. A collaborative man-machine writing system for cut-up poetry using markov models.
github.com/ya1sec/korpisPoem that I wrote with Korpis.
ya1sec.github.io/ioahThe corpus everything else grew out of. Thousands of links saved on are.na over the past decade, organized into channels that each do different work. Ambien reads this. So does Moonjump. Every agent or harness I use has skills to navigate and extract information from my are.na channels. It's where taste accumulates into a material you can query.
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