Cognitive prosthetics
How external memory, language, and agent loops change human cognition.
About
An independent researcher studying AI as it becomes ordinary.
Nathan J. Harrell writes about artificial intelligence as lived infrastructure: cognitive support, agentic engineering, sovereignty, accessibility, and the social shape of human-machine households.
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PORTRAIT
Agentic engineering
Harness design, orchestration, safety boundaries, and review systems.
Sovereign infrastructure
Local-first tools, open models, durable continuity, and family-scale systems.
AI in society
Access, governance, personhood questions, and the politics of distribution.