https://wavypix.com/ Recent essays, inquiries, and visual stories on Wavy PiX Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:05:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/ekalavya-the-arrow-that-never-flew/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:05:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/ekalavya-the-arrow-that-never-flew/ On the comfort of infinite potential, the friction of the workbench, and how we traded the archer's thumb for a frictionless scroll wheel. Part 4 of The Tragedy of Intelligence. https://wavypix.com/essays/the-cosmic-dance-of-sound-and-silence/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:45:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/the-cosmic-dance-of-sound-and-silence/ A moonless night in Death Valley, and the first time I heard silence. Are sound and silence different, or one and the same? https://wavypix.com/cartoons/come-on-give-me-a-deal/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/cartoons/come-on-give-me-a-deal/ A tongue‑in‑cheek visual that shows the current deals everyone wants to have with AI and tokens. https://wavypix.com/essays/the-backdoors-of-the-future/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:10:44 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/the-backdoors-of-the-future/ A backdoor created by a model does not care who uses it later. It is just an AI-generated door, left unlocked, that any actor—human or machine—can walk right through. https://wavypix.com/essays/the-alder/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:08:28 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/the-alder/ Ruminations on Transience and Interconnectivity: A Tree's Existential Journey https://wavypix.com/essays/anatomy-of-a-prompt-chapter-3-the-model-wars/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:22 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/anatomy-of-a-prompt-chapter-3-the-model-wars/ The Model War is not about the smartest engine. It is about who wires the house, who owns the toll booth, and who pours the nectar while everyone else waits for their turn of nectar. https://wavypix.com/essays/anatomy-of-a-prompt-chapter-2-the-bargain/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:25:01 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/anatomy-of-a-prompt-chapter-2-the-bargain/ The intelligence travels. The heat stays local. Part 2 follows the energy wars behind machine cognition—from the grid to the boardroom to the ocean's poison—and asks who inherits the bargain, and who is left to drink what rises. https://wavypix.com/essays/anatomy-of-a-prompt-chapter-1-the-machine/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:15:08 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/anatomy-of-a-prompt-chapter-1-the-machine/ A prompt feels weightless. The machine behind it is not. From Chaplin’s factory floor to the token economy, Part 1 follows the hidden physical ledger beneath machine intelligence—and asks who is paying for the churning. https://wavypix.com/cartoons/daily-routine-helping-my-agents/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/cartoons/daily-routine-helping-my-agents/ A tongue‑in‑cheek visual that shows the daily chores an autonomous agent might perform for its creator. https://wavypix.com/essays/ghost-stories-of-a-midwife/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:00:53 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/ghost-stories-of-a-midwife/ As children, many of us inherited explanations for things we couldn't understand. The old stories still contain a different kind of truth after the learnings. https://wavypix.com/essays/a-formation-of-my-own-making-part-3-of-3-the-exit/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/a-formation-of-my-own-making-part-3-of-3-the-exit/ "Impressive" is not the same as "Capable": Real autonomy comes from matching ambition with pragmatic, resilient design. https://wavypix.com/essays/a-formation-of-my-own-making-part-2-of-3-the-wall/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/a-formation-of-my-own-making-part-2-of-3-the-wall/ When Apple's privacy protections met my over-engineered toy car design. The lessons of building with constraints you didn't plan for. https://wavypix.com/essays/a-formation-of-my-own-making-part-1/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/a-formation-of-my-own-making-part-1/ Building an autonomous AI toy car with an old iPhone, a BananaPi PicoW, and a lot of confidence. What could go wrong? https://wavypix.com/essays/padmavyuha-to-ai-part-3/ Fri, 29 May 2026 20:59:22 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/padmavyuha-to-ai-part-3/ On the boundary of the local sphere, the taming of central empires, and why the sovereign tile outlasts the cloud. https://wavypix.com/essays/padmavyuha-to-ai-part-2/ Tue, 26 May 2026 20:59:22 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/padmavyuha-to-ai-part-2/ On the architecture of the trap, the illusion of the visible exit, and why the loop scales until it consumes the machine. https://wavypix.com/essays/padmavyuha-to-ai-part-1/ Wed, 20 May 2026 20:59:22 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/padmavyuha-to-ai-part-1/ On incomplete maps, wars you did not choose, and who builds the exit https://wavypix.com/essays/the-courage-to-collapse/ Sun, 03 May 2026 21:46:16 +0000 https://wavypix.com/essays/the-courage-to-collapse/ Today I say goodbye to Apple. Some might call this retirement. I would call it v2.0.