The evidence · invention history
Porpoise
Several independently useful AI stances existed before I could see the unnamed category they shared.
Understand the invention model →Instances → category
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Ding 💡
George Mode
“What if we came up with a George Mode that I can invoke every so often?”
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Form
Curious George
A temporary stance that asks and pokes at adjacent ideas until I reach a eureka moment.
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Form
More useful instances
Devil’s George stress-tests. Gossip George XOXO supports storytelling. Panic Room George uses different persuasion rules.
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Collision
The instances become comparable
Each works independently. Comparison exposes a shared behavior: changing the kind of attention an AI brings.
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Ding 💡
The category becomes visible
“Portable behavioral specifications that change the kind of attention an AI brings to a conversation.”
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Form
Porpoise
Portable behavioral specifications for AI assistants, usable inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other existing tools.
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Field
A named category with growing instances
Porpoise now exists as a product concept and a growing set of reusable stances. YAML came later as a cleaner implementation format.
What this path showed: Sometimes the examples exist before I realize they belong to a category without a name. YAML came later; it was not part of the original invention.