True Knight Maxxing
Vibe Coding the Trust Assembly
Imagine your heroic author, beat down and weary. Staggering, wounded, maybe even bleeding slightly in the way you bleed when a baby with super sharp fingernails pinches your nose too hard. I’m tired, my brain is fuzzy, and while praying before bed as always the message I receive is something like a whisper telling me to stop making excuses.
So I pay $100 and get Claude code. And I dump in the full text of my comedy manifesto and substack posts and several other requirement documents I’ve been working on. Over a hundred pages in total. And I explain to Claude what I’m thing to build and why.
An adversarial review process for the entire internet. A method of republic style governance and accountability. Separation of powers. Clear and discernible rules to keep the system fair. Preservation of view point and group but balanced by consensus and mutual intelligibility. A court, if you will, where any person who knows the truth can have a fair and affordable shot at making that truth known. The first step to a world where to know the truth of a matter the common person needs only to open his or her eyes
And fifteen minutes later it was real. Several files for a wiki like website for the adjudication and a web browser. I could even open it up and check the flows myself. I decided to not sleep that night and test everything and lo and behold… I could browse the internet and see my corrections overlayed. The API was API’ing.
It doesn’t have the money integration yet, and I’ll need to figure out a token budget for some of the automation pieces, but… it works.
I decided to do something I normally don’t do and sit for a few weeks and make sure I’m not missing anything big. I have a few people who have been close to the project testing it out. I’ve already thought of several things I want to update or tweak slightly. You can only launch once and I want to make sure I’m right… but I also know I’m not supposed to wait overlong.
So anyway, coming soon. For Chrome browsers and, with a lot of extra steps, Safari and mobile. You’ll have a working Trust Assembly in your hands.
I can’t let myself lose focus but without exaggeration I feel like a great blow has been struck against the forces of evil.
I genuinely admire the ambition here, and I do not doubt your excitement about building a working prototype. But I am struggling with the part that matters most.
You talk about a court for truth, separation of powers, and fair adjudication, but you never actually explain who decides what is true, how those decision-makers are chosen, or how their incentives are constrained. In any system that claims authority over truth, governance is not a feature. It is the entire problem.
How do you prevent this from becoming just another overlay of power that reflects the values, blind spots, and social pressures of the people running it? And how do you handle deep, good-faith disagreement where there is no clean or provable answer?
I am not trying to be cynical. I just think that building the mechanics is the easy part. Designing legitimacy, accountability, and resistance to capture is the real work.
And my prayer is, "please let some guy not be full of shit."