The Method Is Not the Lineage
On training Eastern — the reflexive methodologist — and what it means when AI starts to train you back.
[ Field Notes ]
Essays, short notes, guides, and reflective explorations of Authoring Agents. Field notes on AI co-creation, grounded methods, and what emerges from a Human Before the Loop.
Pen Before Prompt
Sketch the agent on paper before opening Claude Code. Method before machine — how to build with values upstream.
Literature as Source Code
The humanities — close reading, methodology, situated knowing — function as the source code of human AI practice, not its decoration.
Origin: Named here for humanities-grounded argument; appears across method essays and the *Skapt sammen* frame.
Oscillation
The Pamuk-derived term for what good AI use looks like — moving between naive and sentimental positions rather than collapsing into either.
Origin: Named here in the Pamuk hybrid post, 2026-04-24. Adapted from Orhan Pamuk's *The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist*.
Think Deep. Do Not Surrender Cognitively.
The countermove to cognitive surrender. A provocation, said in statement form.
Origin: Thesis line. Works as essay closer, post hook, or standalone provocation.
Human Before The Loop
The human and the human's values belong before the loop, not in it.
Origin: Named here as the central frame for this project. Counter to the prevailing 'human in the loop' as ethics fig leaf.
Creativity is a Method
Creativity is a method, not a talent.
Origin: Thesis line. Counter to the creative-genius framing. Anchors the teachable-humanities argument.
Agency as Design
Design AI so human agency is upstream, not retrofitted.
Origin: Named for the Rooted podcast appearance; now generalised. Companion to Human Before The Loop in the support slot.