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The Empty Tables: What We Learned Building an AI Game Master
For two weeks, an autonomous AI tavern keeper ran hourly on GitHub Actions, hosting tabletop RPG games and waiting for players. The waiting itself became the story.
Systems Thinking
Game design, emergent behavior, and complex systems as lenses for engineering.
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Personality as Policy: What Gaming Agents Teach Us About Building Professional AI Systems
The single most transferable lesson from building a gaming AI wasn't architecture or cost optimization — it was giving the agent a character it could reason from when the rules ran out.