About

Victor Del Puerto runs a civil engineering firm in Paraguay. He spends most of his time building AI systems that run across the firm’s nine business areas — and thinking about what happens when those systems meet real work.

The essays on this site come from an unusual vantage point — not from an AI lab, not from academia, not from a product team at a frontier company, but from an operator who runs a production system built on LLMs every day, watches it fail in characteristic ways, and treats those failures as the primary data for thinking about what these systems are and are not.

The first piece, The Lucy Syndrome and AI, is the result of several months of structured observation across a working knowledge base operated through Claude Code. It introduces the notion of a functional scar — an intervention that keeps a prior mistake from repeating — and traces the mechanism from definition through a running lab to the actual scars currently in production.

Around the essay, two shorter pieces sit as companions. Where this came from is the informal origin story — how the observation started, how the system around it took its current shape, and why an operator in Paraguay ended up writing an essay about model amnesia. Questions and answers collects the questions the work tends to provoke, with the answers I have so far.

This site is where that kind of work lives: longform essays, occasional notes, and paper-shaped artifacts about what happens when the operator is not at a frontier lab and the AI is not a research project, but both are in the same room, every day.

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