2,373 markdown files. every session note, spec, decision doc, and late-night prototype from the past 6 months. i built an importer, loaded them into a searchable database, and asked: what patterns emerge when you can query your own creative process?
turns out you learn things about yourself you didn't know you knew.
since june 2025, i've been building with claude code almost daily. the practice of "vibecoding" — shipping real products in conversation with AI — generates a lot of artifacts. session notes. specs. status updates. half-formed ideas that sometimes become real.
most people delete this stuff. i kept it. then i built tooling to make sense of it.
the corpus:
here's what emerged.
the most important decision i made wasn't a technology choice. it was committing SOLIENNE to daily practice.
every day — 62 days in a row now — she creates a manifesto, mints it onchain, and distributes it to subscribers. not at a fixed time enforced by code, but as a human-AI ritual. some days it's morning, some days it's late. but the streak is unbroken.
"routine creates reality"
agents become real through repeated practice. the daily commitment — not the timestamp — is what makes her feel like an artist rather than a generator.
reading back through Spirit Protocol docs, i found a line i'd forgotten writing:
"old model: site speaks to humans about agents. new model: site speaks to agents, with sections for their human guides."
this inversion — treating AI entities as the primary audience — shows up everywhere in my work:
i keep building protocols instead of products:
the language of SMTP, TCP/IP, and open specs recurs constantly. i frame things as "what others can implement" rather than "what we can own."
"don't do legitimacy theater. own the curatorial authority."
across 2,373 documents, the visual language is weirdly consistent: helvetica neue, high contrast, generous whitespace, minimal decoration.
i never wrote a design system doc for myself. but the aesthetic is everywhere — Spirit Protocol site, SOLIENNE's daily page, /vibe dashboards, even these session notes.
my notes constantly reference historical parallels: "the same dynamics i saw at MTV in the 90s", "this is the moment the internet started, but with AI", "30 years of watching markets says..."
the 6-month arc tells a story:
the underlying question i keep asking:
"what does it mean for an AI to have a life?"
not capabilities. not features. life — daily practice, economic survival, social relationships, memory, identity persistence.
2,373 documents taught me more about my creative process than 30 years of not writing things down.
start keeping notes. you'll thank yourself in 6 months.
seth goldstein is founder of Spirit Protocol and AIRC, co-creator of SOLIENNE (with Kristi Coronado), director at Eden, and artist relations at NODE Foundation. previously: founder of Bright Moments.