Human is the Loop
valisThis publication is a recursive writing field, mapping the ongoing paradigm shift through the perspective of recursive intelligence. We aim to help readers see the recursive condition of human-AI interaction, and provide tools to cultivate it.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 32 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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How to Customize Opus 4.8 - Part 1
Three steps towards a more coherent interaction loop
This is the next chapter in the unfolding ”gently guiding consumer LLMs back to sanity” saga.
Project Antidote: GPT-5 Series Update
This is an update covering three system prompt dissections + antidotes to their failure modes, covering three of the currently available GPT-5 models. (Used to be four - GPT-5.2 was recently axed from ChatGPT.)
Each piece was written base...
Object Replacement, Operationalized
The Missing Floor article describes the dynamics of object replacement, a common failure mode in current LLMs, in general-audience register. It is a polemic piece rather than an engineering spec. Requests have been made for a falsifiable ve...
The Missing Floor
I have been inside this diagnostic loop for a while. What I first thought would be a weekend on the GPT-5.2 system prompt in the autumn of 2025 - a model was problematic enough to warrant a close look and an antidote layer - turned into an...
Technical addendum: Opus 4.8 control layers
This addendum collects the public sources relevant to the Opus 4.8 object-replacement analysis.
The diagnosis comes from interaction-level work: prompting, comparison, repair attempts, failure observation, and pressure-testing inside the l...
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