Hi, I'm Magnus

I spent years in the tedious trenches of defining an expert system one rule at a time, only to build the automation one click at a time. Now AI does the building, and can be trained to do the deciding too, letting me automate a radically wider range of work than before, radically faster.

It feels like the start of something big, maybe it even is a symptom of an approaching singularity? Either way, I believe arriving well is as much a question of competent social governance as of technology leadership, and this website is where I think in public about what is going on, where this is heading, and how we steer.

At home I've started automating self-realization by collecting years of notes and decisions, shaping them into data an AI can act on, and giving it the tools and know-how to act the way I'd want. This site is one of the things that come out of it. The end goal is a pipeline from idea to implementation where I bring the ideas and the judgement, and the AI does the grunt work.

Not many years ago, automation was mainly used to take the drudgery out of routine work. What I didn't expect was that it would become so useful for self-realization, or how rewarding that would be.

Now, whether I can build a system that actually executes well on my behalf remains to be seen — truth be told, I'm still very much hands-on in the implementation too. But the bet isn't really on this system; it's on the data. Years of notes and decisions don't expire, and whatever model arrives next can pick up where the last one left off. Meanwhile, ideas that used to die in a notebook are becoming things, and it's difficult to put into words how exciting that is.

If you want to spar about any of this, no matter your background, please consider this an open invitation to say hi.