by iqentity | Mar 14, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The same words can mean completely different things depending on what I am trying to accomplish. “What happened with the Meridian project?” could be a request for a status summary, a root cause analysis of a failure, a chronological timeline, or a...
by iqentity | Mar 9, 2024 | Development, Tessera
A breakthrough in the conceptual architecture this week. I have been thinking about how to structure Tessera’s internal representation of my decision history, and the answer is not a timeline. It is a lattice. Why Timelines Fail A timeline tells a story. First...
by iqentity | Mar 5, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The knowledge graph is Tessera’s nervous system. Vector embeddings capture what things mean. The lexical index captures what things say. The graph captures how things relate. And relationships, not content, are what make a life assistant possible. I spent three...
by iqentity | Feb 27, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The AI industry’s default assumption is cloud. Need language understanding? Call OpenAI. Need embeddings? Hit the API. Need synthesis? Send your text to someone else’s server and trust their terms of service. Tessera will never do this. Not as a...
by iqentity | Feb 23, 2024 | Development, Tessera
I made the architecture decision that will define Tessera’s deployment model. The system will be designed from the ground up for air-gapped operation. No external network dependencies. No telemetry. No cloud services. Everything runs locally, on hardware I...
by iqentity | Feb 22, 2024 | Development, Tessera
Human memory is not a database. It is a lossy, reconstructive, emotionally weighted system that prioritizes differently depending on context. The best moments of engineering Tessera have been the moments where I stopped trying to build a perfect recall system and...
