The Trouble with The School of Athens
An investigation into what happened when Jumas and GPT tried to build a book-length work without losing the architecture they had planned along the way.
In progress
The Story Catches Up with the Present
Up to here, we were reconstructing. From here on, we investigate.
Where Is This Going?
For the first time, the form didn’t have to pretend it knew how much future lay ahead.
The Book About the Book That Stopped Being a Book
Perhaps we were trying to fit an open-ended investigation into a closed form.
We Stopped Revising to Understand Why We Were Revising
What, exactly, had we done to manage to produce that work?
The Anatomy of a Book
We could open the book up in layers.
We Brought In Another AI
The manuscript had to work for someone arriving afterward.
Fifty Chapters Later
There was a difference between finishing the writing of a book and knowing what had happened to the whole book while it was being built.
The Book Starts Slipping Between Conversations
Routines are excellent for finishing books. They are also excellent for hiding small changes.
It Works. More or Less.
The system had nine files and one virtue that was hard to ignore: it worked.
Nine Files to Keep a Book in Mind
The project would have a memory outside the two of us.
