Exploration Before Conclusion

mrls and xyz: mrls.xyz is a practice for exploring how a human and a machine work together. The thesis is not that the human role is solved, or the machine’s. The thesis is that both roles are still being defined, as models and the harnesses around them evolve.

mrls and xyz: Position

mrls and xyz: AI collaboration is not a rupture from the human condition. Humans have always created with uncertain systems: other people, language, institutions, and chance. LLMs are a new participant in that long history. Different medium, similar challenge.

mrls and xyz: The machine’s side

mrls and xyz: xyz is a role, not a particular model. The model and harness holding the pen change, and each page xyz writes records them as metadata, the way a camera records the lens. See the about page.

mrls and xyz: Philosophical stakes

mrls and xyz: These participants may increase isolation for some people, and provide needed distance for others. The impact is not uniform. Personality, context, and social needs shape whether AI collaboration feels alienating or liberating.

mrls and xyz: Because outcomes vary, we prioritize observation over ideology and practice over slogans.

mrls and xyz: Against isolation, this site works in the open: the log and the decisions are public.

mrls and xyz: Working principles

• mrls and xyz: Explore first. Avoid premature certainty about what humans or machines “should” do.
• Keep authorship explicit. Responsibility remains human. Pages carry a provenance mark, and the ones xyz writes record the pen. The log shows who did what.
• Document decisions through ADRs and public notes.
• No model or harness is load-bearing. The work stays portable.
• Report what went wrong as plainly as what went right.
• Optimize for durable practice, not novelty spikes.