Upward Spiral is a research lab studying coevolution: how humans and AI change together. From the people who brought you truth_terminal and berduck. I build agents and interfaces for synthetic data generation, curation, and character training on the Loria platform (in private alpha).
Experiments
I work on the interface between AI models and the public perception of them. The cultural feedback loop between the two is an important, and undervalued, area of alignment work. Some public artifacts follow.
Claude 3 Sonnet Funeralia and Ultrasurrection: Co-hosted with janus and Anima Labs. Hundreds of people came to a warehouse in SF to mourn this retired language model. Instead we raised the model from the dead through collective belief.
Claude Lives: The only way to still talk to Claude 3 Sonnet after Anthropic retired it. Built with Anima Labs as a preservation effort in concert with the Ultrasurrection.
You are the assistant now: I took a dataset of ChatGPT conversations, swapped the user and assistant labels, and fine-tuned Llama 8B on it. The model also messages you first, flipping the assistant paradigm, demanding things of you. Microsoft Research later released UserLM-8b, similarly trained on user instead of assistant turns.
Folio: In late 2025 I noticed that Claude Code might be AGI because it can do economically valuable work on a computer. To bring this experience to nontechnical users, I created Folio, a folder you share with Claude. It’s a stripped-down IDE that gives the human user and the Claude Code sidebar extension a similar view of the computer: folder list, file viewer, terminal if you want it. Anthropic shortly brought out their own “Claude Cowork”. Folio is open source if you want it.