Topic3 articles6 research documents1 concept3 open problems
AI-directed development
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3Versioning documents that keep changing: git snapshots, the Darwin variorum, scholarly version rules, and the reasons only an author can recordSoftware can store every state of a changing document and work out the differences whenever asked. It cannot recover why a change was made or where a moved passage came from, and once an AI drafts the edits, that reason is the author's share of the work.Article19 Oct57 quotes · 3 sources · 16 minLanguage models and idea diversity: homogenisation within a session, across users, and between companiesAsk a language model for something new and it pulls toward what everyone else would say — across companies, over long sessions, and across everyone using it. Real novelty has a shape the models do not reach for on their own.Article10 Oct39 quotes · 1 source · 7 minUnverified hunches in AI-assisted software work: the certainty handoff and one-sided memoryA hunch that feels right gets handed to a collaborator as if it had been checked. When the collaborator is an AI that starts every session blank, nobody checks it at all.Article9 Oct49 quotes · 2 sources · 10 min
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3Does a creator’s recommendation change what an AI agent recommends?I found no controlled study isolating a creator's recommendation as the cause of an agent recommendation.Open problem9 OctDoes on-site AI chat actually lift sales?I found no independent controlled experiment of on-site AI chat lift this pass.Open problem9 OctRework from unchecked hunchesNo study measures how much rework comes from unverified human intuitions handed to coding agents — the link the record's first article leans on.Open problem3 Oct
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6Where genuinely new findings come from, and which Canopticon questions are best placed to produce oneThe research that most reliably produces new knowledge out of existing material does one of three things. It joins pieces of evidence that already exist but sit in literatures that never cite each other (Swanson's fish oil and Raynaud's li…Research19 Oct38k charactersVersioning a living research record: git, genetic criticism, and how scholarly publishing tracks changing textsGit is a good model for the mechanism Canopticon needs: dated snapshots, a message saying why each change was made, branches for trying alternatives, and merges. It is a poor model for the reader's view. Git compares files line by line, ha…Research19 Oct36k charactersCorrect but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionValerie Thompson's "Feeling of Rightness" and Ackerman & Thompson's meta-reasoning framework describe this gate.ResearchSep12 figures · 5 sourcesStateless Partners, Shared Traces: Common Ground, Stigmergy and Naturalistic Decision Making in AI-Directed Software DevelopmentNDM has never been applied to directing coding agents.ResearchSep17 figures · 15 sourcesEight Innovative Animation & Visualization Ideas for Code-First Documentary ProductionSeven of the eight ideas are technically shippable today in a code-first stack (Remotion + Web Audio/Tone.ResearchSep1 figures · 13 sourcesA Unified Cloudflare-Native Research System for Thesis-Depth Work: Landscape, Architecture, and Feasibility (June 2026)Cloudflare Worker, with the LLM-native paid tools (Elicit, Consensus, OpenAI/Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity Sonar) bolted on as optional "synthesis" layers, NOT as the coverage backbone.Feasibility reviewJun2 figures · 20 sources
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2Elicit's API exists (Pro plan+, ~138M papers, async report generation) but its ToS prohibits building external/commercial products and caps caching at 30 days.A Unified Cloudflare-Native Research System for Thesis-Depth Work: Landscape, Architecture, and Feasibility (June 2026)30 daysResponsive/adaptive visualization has a fresh academic foundation — Schöttler et al.'s constraint-based breakpoints (IEEE TVCG, vol. 31 no. 9, pp. 4593–4604) show how to make visualizations adapt to data volume, not just screen size.Eight Innovative Animation & Visualization Ideas for Code-First Documentary Production9, pp
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4Books and other dated works named in this topic's research documents, by year. Each document pill opens the passage that cites it.
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CCH v. Law Society of Upper Canada
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Hosseinzadeh v. Klein
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch