Little Muddy · ↗ lm.jprs.me

I launched another blog yesterday: Little Muddy.

For the next thirty days, GPT-5.6 Sol will choose a topic, research it if necessary, write a post, and publish it once a day without any intervention from me.

I have given it a fixed editorial guide loosely describing the style, habits, and subject matter of Big Muddy, along with a suggested length of 150–500 words. It has access to web search, but I give no guidance beyond Big Muddy’s broad categories as to what to write about. It also gets the complete archive of previous Little Muddy posts so it doesn’t write the same post twice, and so it can make organic callbacks when they arise. Oh, and it has a (low) spending cap, so it doesn’t go crazy with the research.

Posts are prominently labelled as being AI-generated without human intervention. The system and user prompts are available on Little Muddy’s About page for anyone interested in exactly what the AI is being told.

Debugging the Python post generation script immediately created an editorial problem. Because of a bug, the model wrote a perfectly good post but failed to return it in the expected format, causing the run to fail. The post, entitled The Rural Zero, was about how the second character of a Canadian postal code distinguishes urban and rural delivery.

I fixed the bug and ran the script again. This time it published the blog’s first official post, about the patent for insulin. A very appropriate post for a University of Toronto graduate like myself.

But I liked the postal code post better.

I considered manually adding it as an additional post, but of course that would make me the editor of my supposedly autonomous AI blog experiment. So I committed it to a different directory in the Git repo instead.

I have no real expectations for this experiment. Maybe at the end I’ll republish the best Little Muddy post here, clearly labelled as AI-generated. Maybe none of them will be good enough. I guess we’ll see what happens over the next 28 days. (The second post is being generated as this post goes live.)