Writing · Advisory Hour Note

You know you’re in a deep rabbit hole

A frontier-work note on the phrases that appear when agents, compilers, and experiments start folding into each other. · Published Apr 10, 2026

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A chat input showing the phrase implement the disentanglement smoke compiler
Next action: implement the disentanglement smoke compiler.

You know you’re in a deep rabbit hole when you’re about to launch a disentanglement smoke compiler.

Some frontier work announces itself as a plan. Some of it shows up as a sentence you have to read twice because the words only make sense inside the system you have been building.

This was one of those moments: a tiny marker from the edge of an agentic build where the toolchain, the experiment, and the vocabulary had started to braid together.

Related context

This note sits near the same practical weirdness as the OpenClaw work: live agent systems, strange implementation names, and the receipts left behind when a build is deep enough that the next action sounds fictional.