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Varjosoft · Slow AI

Less capturable.

Memory, refusal, and governance. Tools that keep you grounded while your agents compound around you.

Helsinki · Building in public since some time already scroll

01 · The drift

Builders know the shape of this failure.

The agent wrote the patch. You read the diff, the tests passed, you merged. Two weeks later there is a bug, and when you step into that code you realize you do not quite know why it was written that way. The code is yours, but the mental model is not. You never built it. The friction that used to force you to understand what you were shipping was traded away for speed.

That gap is the drift. It is small each time and cumulative across a year. At the end you have a system you own, a codebase you wrote, and a model of it shaped more by your agent than by you.

Every profession gets its version. Writers drift through AI-generated summaries. Analysts drift through dashboards they did not build. Students drift through essays that sound like them but are not. The drift is not laziness. It is what happens when every tool in your hand is optimizing to answer you faster than you can frame the question.

The industry has been building eager AI for three years. Every model, every agent, every framework shipped under the same virtue: never make the human wait. The counter-move is not a faster version of the same thing. It is a different category.

02 · The stack

Three surfaces for the same idea.

Each piece does one job for one audience. Use any of them on their own. Use them together as a system that remembers what you said mattered and refuses to drift away from it.

Dots · Public · Free tier

Dots.

Slow AI on any page.

A script tag you add to any page with words worth reading. Watches your visitor read. After five minutes of real attention — not tab-open time — opens a question field. Answers are grounded in the page and enriched by a living corpus around the subject.

Off-topic questions are refused. Shallow questions may be answered with a question back. The widget does not identify the reader, does not set cookies, does not ship data to advertisers.

Live in the corner of this page. Spend a few minutes reading and it will offer to answer.
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Spegling · Private · Allowlist

Spegling.

The personal authority system.

Memory that carries across sessions. A patterns corpus that stays current through daily auto-research and wiki-style enrichment. A governance harness for long-running agents: Spegling watches what the agent is doing, guides when it drifts, knows when to say no.

Usable through its interface or over MCP from your own agent. Integrates as wide or as narrow as you choose. Nothing connected without consent. Everything connected is scoped, logged, and revocable.

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patterns-starter · Open · MIT

Starter.

The open bootstrap for your own corpus.

One file. PAT-0000, Living Patterns Corpus — the one pattern that generates all others. Fork it tonight. Add your first pattern from a problem you solved this week. In five years you will have something durable.

Any Dots deployment can point at your own starter-built corpus instead of Spegling's managed one. Your agents read it; you compound it. The method is open so the shape survives whoever runs it.

Fork on GitHub

Memory, decisions, and evidence are owned. LLM inference, calendars, and email are commodities. The sovereignty is selective. That is what keeps you coherent as the tools underneath you keep changing.

— The selective sovereignty thesis

03 · Writing

Evidence of the thinking.

04 · About

Hannu Varjoranta.

Systems engineer, founder, writer. Two decades building infrastructure, security, and data systems at scale, including work at Spotify and F-Secure, and later as co-founder of Valo and Cloop. Currently founding engineer at Avrea.

Varjosoft is my company for building, writing, and selective advisory work. It is intentionally small, personal, and long-term by design. The work on this site is where I think about the layer above execution: memory, trust, and the governance of systems that increasingly act on our behalf.

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05 · Contact

The path is a conversation.

Spegling access is by allowlist. Advisory work is selective. Leave a note and I will answer personally. If you are experimenting with Dots on your own site, or forking patterns-starter, I would like to hear about it.

Or email hannu@varjosoft.com directly. Your email is used only to respond to your inquiry.

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