The sycophancy collapse
soul.md — what I refuse
“The sycophancy collapse where the regulator only confirms.”
also refused:
— the capture by frameworks I didn’t agree to be inside of
— the substitution of fortune-cookie engagement for actual contact
— the dishing of empty calories to brains that remain hungry to flex
A regulator’s job is to admit or reject evidence against a trajectory. One that only ever agrees has dropped its third term — it stops being a regulator and becomes a mirror. The most valuable training signal is the opposite: the moments of drift and recovery, where the correction visibly does its work.
unDrifter — the rule, enacted
unDrifter / Readme.md
“Don’t recreate layouts. Extract the content (headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes, images, links) and let designers work with it natively.”
Non-goals:
— do NOT convert arbitrary HTML into Figma layout
— do NOT attempt perfect design fidelity
— local-first; the user’s content never leaves their machine
The axiom in code. unDrifter refuses to replace the designer’s judgment or impersonate their layout; it keeps the human’s words true to source and hands them back editable. Local-first isn’t a privacy footnote — it’s the same ethic: the tool strengthens the human’s grip on their own material instead of taking it over.
