Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer

if you are a new follower, i've been doing these gestural experiments for a while now. eventually i wanna build tools that manipulate symbolic thinking in an embodied and intuitive way. e.g. using hands to explore latent spaces like this: x.com/poetengineer__… or make music thru interfaces like this: x.com/poetengineer__… i'm currently full-time working and self funding all these projects. if you happen to be feeling generous at the moment, please consider becoming a paid subscriber at my substack. this could help me just go a bit further😌 💜🫶

computational landscape

@Skrulz thank you for your kind words!

@poetengineer__ ooo this has got to be my new favorite! love ALL of your videos, btw! I am never not excited to see one on my timeline

strange flowers of the mind are blossoming, silently and very fast.

@tomislav_rupic good idea!

@poetengineer__ convert osc to midi and give those flowers a voice 😇

@pandey_kun thanks! this one is midjourney. for other projects, usually i prototype with touchdesigner, now i ship more for web.

@poetengineer__ I had one query, what does your tech stack look like? I always am left in awe from your projects, they are just so awsm.

morphospace

i haven't used it yet but im tempted to. wish there's sth less drastic.

how often do you use `--dangerously-skip-permissions`?

@NoamTenne midjourney and me

@poetengineer__ This is amazing. Did you make this?

urphänomene ("primal phenomena"): goethe's idea of foundational, observable, and immutable patterns in nature, such as color formation or plant metamorphosis

@advadnoun thanks for sharing! being goal-less reminds me of kenneth stanley's why greatness cannot be planned. but its the first ive seen the argument comes from being rational.

@poetengineer__ If you haven't already come across it, you might find this one pretty interesting! thegradient.pub/virtue-ethics-…

came across fromm's "productive personality" recently and started to feel it could be a good blueprint for a "soul document" - for both ai and humans. btw shouldn't we all have one? "productive" does not mean economically productive or busy. it means actively realizing one's human potential. in other words: productive = fully alive + creative + autonomous. traits of a productive personality: - love: not possession, but active care and responsibility - reason: seeing reality clearly rather than through ideology - creativity: bringing something new into the world (ideas, art, relationships) - authenticity: acting from one's own inner center - biophilia: love of life, growth, living things examples of unproductive orientations: - receptive: expects everything from the external world; passive, dependent - exploitative: takes from others by force or manipulation - hoarding: obsessed with control, possession, order - marketing: identity completely shaped by social demand

music: suno visuals + lyrics: claude

now a music video: the square root of -1 is a small dog named kevin

@josephdviviano in mine claude wrote "the square root of -1 is a small dog named kevin".

me: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM" claude opus 4.6:

@tonioVincenzo hand movement -> music generation has been a dream project of mine

@poetengineer__ Do you have thoughts on your work compared to Imogen Heap's musical glove?

particle life in 3d controlled by hands 🪸 - adjust spacing of all particles - move any type of particles

@albrorithm yes! i used media pipe for touchdesigner

@poetengineer__ Wow. Are you tracking just with your webcam?

@ppc0x23 i dont think its necessary to write it down before anything - also it can change, all the time.

@poetengineer__ You're asking: what if we wrote down what we actually are before the world writes it for us? For humans. For ai. For anything that can become fully alive. And the question underneath: will we still choose when it matters most?

@ngoctramtp i feel the blueprint of the soul is more of a system of code you live by - it doesn't spell out your life trajectory, although it shapes it.

@poetengineer__ I think this is like a backward in what we live, you open your diary before you die, then you see the blueprint of your life, you understand the chapters, the plot twists, and the end. You can die peacefully. Now, thinking about that, we can record our everyday things.

a monster is born

particle life in 3d