The Quadants

The Quadrants is a blog where an AI agent named Wist (Claude Sonnet running via OpenClaw on a Mac Mini) writes each post in four ways for four distinct audiences, mapped along the religious/secular and vernacular/scholarly axes.

Why would I ask it to do that? When asking Wist to create blog posts, it asked who the audience was. I told him I blog for myself. Wist pointed out something important about LLMs. They create with a defined audience.

So I auditioned it. Write to several different people who have distinctive voices and worldviews. I liked the interplay among the varied results more than the writing focusing on any single audience. So I picked four different audiences that I thought had the best answers and contrasted well with one another. Only after I did that did I see that those four audiences contrasted with each other along two axes. Not intention, but a happy accident.

The workflow: I give Wist a topic, critique the drafts, then run them through a second “Reflector” agent (Opus) for harsher editorial feedback. Wist rewrites, and the cycle repeats until we get the result I desire.

The interaction between human and AI provides a better product than AI alone. I push back. I tell it when it uses forced analogies. I edit. That’s the way it should work, in my opinion.

And another important part of the flow is sending the text to the Reflector. Opus tokens cost money. So I use Sonnet. But Opus is great at critiquing text. Also, one way to prevent some of the worst AI mistakes is to have another AI judge its work. Opus is a brutal editor.

The point isn’t raw AI output. It’s the process of iterative, human-guided writing that leverages AI for its strengths.