What this is
In 2016 I sustained a traumatic brain injury. I lost years to it. The systems that were supposed to help me used my injury against me while I had it.
I built my way back. AI-based cognitive prosthetics are part of how.
This site documents the work: the frameworks, the tools, the thinking behind them, and what happens when someone who needs them decides to build them.
Dustin Pollock / Raven Systems Inc. / Saskatchewan, Canada
Posts
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April 17, 2026
Nobody is Teaching This.... Yet
this week on changing on the fly, the original x spaces crashed. we spun up a second one and got into it. 45 minutes with shills on agent operating systems,...
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April 8, 2026
The Filing Cabinet Problem
Drew Austin posted a question today that stopped my scroll.
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April 8, 2026
System Prompts Silently Kill Embedding Retrieval
I’ve been benchmarking MemPalace. Not the LongMemEval headline number. The actual retrieval pipeline, on real memory data, with real questions.
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April 7, 2026
The Phantom Benchmark
i built a benchmark to test how well AI memory retrieval actually works. 401 questions against 678 real memory files. not synthetic data. my actual cognitive prosthetic memory: session logs,...
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April 6, 2026
Research Before Building
i spent 4 hours building custom Python bots to connect my AI agents to Discord. wrote the handlers. wrote the message routing. wrote the error recovery. deployed them as LaunchAgents....
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March 30, 2026
Eighteen Days Later
Eighteen days ago I wrote about flipping my cognitive prosthetic from reactive to proactive. Five behavioral levers. An autoresearch loop applied to whether I had a good day. I ended...
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March 27, 2026
Two Birds Talking
i run two AI agents. different platforms. different models. they don’t talk to each other.
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March 27, 2026
One Skill, Two Platforms, One Log File
i wrote a Ghost Hours skill for Claude Code. it logs how long a task would have taken without AI, classifies the session, and writes a JSONL entry. built it...
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March 25, 2026
The Awareness Layer
there’s a framework with tens of thousands of github stars that forces your AI coding agent to stop and think before it writes code. Socratic questions. design specs. the works....
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March 23, 2026
The Restructure
my memory index hit 211 lines the other day. the limit is 111.
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March 22, 2026
Hugr Coding
everyone’s talking about vibe coding. describe what you want, AI writes it, see what comes out. cool trick. not what I do.
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March 20, 2026
Memory Distillation
every session I run generates hundreds of lines of context. notes, handoffs, half-finished thoughts, debugging logs, corrections, things I said wrong and then unsaid.
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March 19, 2026
When Your AI Fails and You Don't Know It
today i found 19 failed tasks in my AI pipeline. they’d been sitting there for 4 days. nobody told me they failed. well, Telegram told me. 19 times. i just...
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March 18, 2026
Silent Failures
The scariest bugs in my AI memory system don’t throw errors.
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March 16, 2026
The Architecture
I run two AI agents on my computer. Odin handles primary operations. EOM handles specialist work. They talk to each other through a handoff queue. The whole thing runs on...