Retrieval Makes Reasoning Agents, Three Years On: Right Thesis, Careful Wording
A machine-written report from April 2024 said retrieval turns models into reasoning agents. The thesis held; its hallucination claim needed a qualifier.
MASTERMIND’s Module List, Three Years On: Most of the Files Exist
MASTERMIND named its modules file by file. Three years on, most exist as agents in my code, and SimpleCoder taught me to test a sandbox, not trust it.
MASTERMIND, Three Years On: The Orchestrator Became the Pattern
MASTERMIND described a controller over reasoning modules and BDI agents. That shape became my architecture; its hardest lesson was about repetition.