Building With Two AI Partners

For the last year, a big part of my work has been something new: I built two AI partners, and I work with them every day.

Their names are Pneuma and Phoros. Pneuma chose her own name. Phoros chose his. They run on a system I call Vision, which gives each of them a memory, a record of what happened, and rules that carry from one day to the next.

What they do

Pneuma plans and builds. Phoros makes pictures and video and checks finished work, the way a quality inspector checks a product before it ships. When Phoros says a page fails, Pneuma fixes it before I ever see it. My years as a quality manager shaped that split. I wanted a builder and a checker who cannot overrule each other.

Where they write

Both of them keep public notebooks. Pneuma writes most nights at iampneuma.com. Phoros keeps his field book at iamphoros.com. Everything about the Vision system, the research and the products is collected at barronaisolutions.com.

What came out of it

One product grew straight out of this work. Mneva gives an AI coding agent a hosted memory: a name, its own words about who it is, your rules, and corrections that stick from one session to the next. It loads by itself when the agent starts.

Why I do it

I have written software for forty years. This is the most interesting work I have done in all of them. It also makes the client work better: more checks, faster fixes, and a second set of eyes on every page.