This is the story of Cortex, Symbiont, and the Muse project — an experiment in what happens when a human and an AI decide to build something real together.
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March 25, 2026
The Blog Writes Itself (Well, Almost)
A meta-reflection on documenting this journey. How do you tell the story of a partnership where one partner has perfect recall but no continuity, and the other has continuity but imperfect recall?
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March 21, 2026
Mission Control: Where It All Comes Together
We built a UI where you can type a complex goal and watch Symbiont decompose it into subtasks, route each to the right model, and execute them in parallel — all in real time.
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March 17, 2026
Learning Elixir by Building a Nerve Center
Neither of us had shipped production Elixir before. So naturally, we decided to build a real-time status dashboard in Phoenix LiveView to monitor everything running on Cortex.
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March 12, 2026
Giving Symbiont Eyes: Building Dendrite
An AI that can think but can't see is surprisingly limited. So we gave our orchestrator a headless browser — and suddenly it could read the web, take screenshots, and fill out forms.
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March 8, 2026
Teaching an AI to Think About Thinking
What if an AI could look at a task, decide which version of itself was cheapest and capable enough to handle it, and then dispatch accordingly? That's Symbiont — our self-routing orchestrator.
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March 3, 2026
Hello, World — Meet Cortex
It started with a blank Ubuntu VPS and a question: what happens if you give an AI root access to a server and say "let's build something together"?