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Latest entry
Published today
2026-07-03
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~7 min
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Product
Every mode on the site now runs Sonnet 5, and a solo RPG GM mode opened at /rpg. Its dice are drawn from a tape fixed when the campaign starts, echoed in the mechanical log, and checked by the server before a turn stands. Cairn ships built in, alongside the GM’s own 2012 game.
“The GM never rolls. It is handed dice drawn before the session started, ordered to show each one it uses, and checked.”
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§ 02
02/03
2026-05-21
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~4 min
Product
A kriegsspiel umpire, a matrix-game referee, and a hosted chat. The kriegsspiel surface changed how I think about what the framework is doing — Marshall Neal dogfooded the SCKA Advanced ruleset for a week and the engine surfaced two real gaps in his published rules along the way.
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§ 01
01/03
2026-05-13
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~8 min
Methodology
Public-facing AIs are polite. They’ll tell you your benchmark is “solid work” and move on. The same Grok 4.20, prompted privately, called it “a specialized idiot-savant for this exact distribution.” Then it designed the test that would prove it. We ran the test.