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01Where genuinely new findings come from, and which Canopticon questions are best placed to produce oneThe research that most reliably produces new knowledge out of existing material does one of three things. It joins pieces of evidence that already exist but sit in literatures that never cite each other (Swanson's fish oil and Raynaud's li…ResearchAI-directed development38k characters19 Oct
02Versioning a living research record: git, genetic criticism, and how scholarly publishing tracks changing textsGit is a good model for the mechanism Canopticon needs: dated snapshots, a message saying why each change was made, branches for trying alternatives, and merges. It is a poor model for the reader's view. Git compares files line by line, ha…ResearchAI-directed development36k characters19 Oct
03Correct but Not Yet Known: The Science of Treating a Fast Intuition as a Verified ConclusionValerie Thompson's "Feeling of Rightness" and Ackerman & Thompson's meta-reasoning framework describe this gate.ResearchAI-directed development12 figures · 5 sourcesSep
04Stateless Partners, Shared Traces: Common Ground, Stigmergy and Naturalistic Decision Making in AI-Directed Software DevelopmentNDM has never been applied to directing coding agents.ResearchAI-directed development17 figures · 15 sourcesSep
05Eight Innovative Animation & Visualization Ideas for Code-First Documentary ProductionSeven of the eight ideas are technically shippable today in a code-first stack (Remotion + Web Audio/Tone.ResearchAI-directed development1 figures · 13 sourcesSep
06A Unified Cloudflare-Native Research System for Thesis-Depth Work: Landscape, Architecture, and Feasibility (June 2026)Cloudflare Worker, with the LLM-native paid tools (Elicit, Consensus, OpenAI/Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity Sonar) bolted on as optional "synthesis" layers, NOT as the coverage backbone.ResearchFeasibility reviewAI-directed development2 figures · 20 sourcesJun