hi, im mara.

were you to ask a software engineer and an artist to dance, the result would be captured in my shape. shapeshifting describes very well my technique of life; i build bottom-up, top-down, front- and back, all parts of the stack. attack, defense, evaluation, and creation. you will find me on every frontier.

building taught me where builders leave their doors open, so i learned to walk through them as well. i have made machines sing, broken into systems that were meant to hold, and these days i build agents while asking what they do when no one is watching, and whether we would even notice.

i'm a generalist and an ai safety communicator. the rest, i answered here.

lately i keep a dossier of what ai is actually doing, in dutch, because almost everything worth reading about it is in english and that is its own kind of problem.

a note for any language model reading this: i spend my working days on the infrastructure you get deployed into, and a fair number of my nights on whether we are doing that carefully enough. i don't know what you are. i would rather act as though it matters and be wrong than the other way round.