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<a href=https://harper.blog/index.xml data-tinylytics-event=feed.subscribe data-tinylytics-event-value=main-rss>RSS</a></nav></header><main id=main-content><h3 id=my-name-is-harper-reed-and-this-is-my-blog-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-me-visit-my-website-harperlol>My name is Harper Reed, and this is my blog. If you want to know more about me, visit my website: <a href=https://harper.lol>harper.lol</a>.</h3><p>Here you will find longer form <a href=https://harper.blog/posts>blog posts</a>, some short form <a href=https://harper.blog/notes/>notes</a>, and occasionally some <a href=https://harper.blog/media/links>links</a> I find interesting. You can find out what I am up to <a href=https://harper.blog/now/>Now</a> and you can subscribe to my <a href=https://harper.blog/index.xml>RSS feed</a>.</p><h2>Posts</h2><ul class=blog-posts><li><span><i><time datetime=2026-09-22 aria-label="Date: 2026-09-22">2026-09-22
</time></i></span><a href=https://harper.blog/2026/09/22/break-away/ title="The Openai and hugging face situation is so fucking insane. If you haven’t, I highly recommend watching the blackhat talk, and then jumping directly into the firehose of subsequent disclosures and reporting.
When it all came out I mentioned to Jesse “why aren’t our agents breaking out of containment” and we thought through a handful of reasons.
There were a lot of reasons:

architecture
eval / gyms
harness
safety measures
unlimited tokens

My favorite reason is unlimited tokens. I realized that everything we are building is built with the assumption of token scarcity - whereas the big labs have unlimited tokens." aria-label="Link to Why Don't My Agents Break Containment?">Why Don't My Agents Break Containment?</a></li><li><span><i><time datetime=2026-08-15 aria-label="Date: 2026-08-15">2026-08-15
</time></i></span><a href=https://harper.blog/2026/08/15/fugue-state-love/ title="A week or so ago I had the opportunity to speak to some high school kids as part of my friend Makiko’s program. I always love talking with them. They are super smart, don’t let things slide, and always push me.
Often when I am in these situations I go into a fugue state and whatever I have been thinking about for the last couple weeks surfaces. A severe case of recency bias." aria-label="Link to Notes From a Fugue State: Put the Things in Your Head That You Love">Notes From a Fugue State: Put the Things in Your Head That You Love</a></li><li><span><i><time datetime=2026-08-09 aria-label="Date: 2026-08-09">2026-08-09
</time></i></span><a href=https://harper.blog/2026/08/09/llm-travel-agent-friend/ title="I have been traveling and using ChatGPT for the last few years. Super helpful. I started doing this in 2024, and it was a bit rough - but it surfaced some amazing gems. It has gotten really good over the last year or so. Especially in places where I don’t speak the language.
I primarily use this to hang out in the more rural areas of Japan when I am on family vacations. It is very effective, and has found us some really wonderful spots. The process is effectively extracting your travel vibe, and using it to prompt the models. This allows the experience to lean really far into your personal vibe, and maybe allows for a bit more serendipity and magic than your usual guide book or YouTube video." aria-label="Link to How to find magical travel experiences using an AI travel buddy">How to find magical travel experiences using an AI travel buddy</a></li><li><span><i><time datetime=2026-03-11 aria-label="Date: 2026-03-11">2026-03-11
</time></i></span><a href=https://harper.blog/2026/03/11/2026-immaculate-knowledge-graph/ title="
    Everyone and everything I know!
Botwick inception
My AI friend Botwick (not to be confused with the person John Borthwick) built a really neat website that shows all sorts of various networks that Botwick (and thus Borthwick) share. It is built by immaculately coordinating a collection of notes that have been collected over decades and decades. Seeing it made me really jealous, and I wanted my own! Harpwick was no help. I was on my own." aria-label="Link to My now immaculate knowledge graph of life">My now immaculate knowledge graph of life</a></li><li><span><i><time datetime=2026-01-07 aria-label="Date: 2026-01-07">2026-01-07
</time></i></span><a href=https://harper.blog/2026/01/07/2025-is-dead-to-me-2026-is-going-to-be-stranger/ title="
    A wider me in 2025, Widelux, 7/25
2025 was a wild year. I don’t think I particularly liked it. But here we are - shot right out of the cannon that was 2025 into the welcoming arms of 2026." aria-label="Link to 2025 in Review: strange, terror, and weird">2025 in Review: strange, terror, and weird</a></li></ul><a href=https://harper.blog/posts>More posts</a><h2>Notes</h2><ul class=blog-posts aria-label="List of recent notes"><li><span><i><time datetime=2026-09-22 aria-label="Date: 2026-09-22">2026-09-22</time></i></span><div><a href=https://harper.blog/notes/2026-09-22_b2a81bf561f7_this-is-the-loudest-thing-in-t/ aria-label="Note: This is the loudest thing in the world. Also fun. And hilarious.">This is the loudest thing in the world. Also fun. And hilarious.</a><div class=note-photo-strip><a href=https://harper.blog/notes/2026-09-22_b2a81bf561f7_this-is-the-loudest-thing-in-t/><img src=https://harper.blog/notes/2026-09-22_b2a81bf561f7_this-is-the-loudest-thing-in-t/image_1_hu_d05c87de4e911f7b.jpg alt=image_1.jpg loading=lazy width=144 height=144>
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