Promethean Classification Agent
A completed course project on its own GitHub branch. Not deployed.
A specialist that applies system versus component, barrier dissolution and the course six-criteria test to emerging technologies.
- Why
- I needed a tougher test for claims that something fundamentally rewrites human activity.
How I built it
- I framed the unit of analysis as an existing usable system.
- I wrote a barrier statement and a disappearance or suppression test.
- I scored the relevant criteria only after testing whether a genuine constraint was dissolved.
- I preserved an overhyped or ambiguous test case.
- To copy it you need
- Choose a technology as a usable system and draft the before-this-technology barrier statement.
Try it yourself
Copy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude to try it yourself.
I want to build a small version of Jovan Diaz's Promethean Classification Agent from his What Are We Building? profile. It is a course project, so treat it as a study exercise. It treats a technology as a usable system and asks whether it truly dissolved a barrier, using a barrier statement and a test of what disappears when you take it away. His gotcha: removing a tool and bringing back an old inconvenience doesn't prove the barrier was dissolved. Start by asking me to pick a technology, then help me write the before-this-technology barrier statement. Ask me for anything you need.
Tools I used for this project
ChatGPT: I used ChatGPT to draft, test, critique or work through the workflow.
Codex: I used Codex to help build or revise repository files and tests.
Python: I used Python scripts or validation tools to process and check structured outputs.
GitHub: GitHub holds all of my repositories: code, instructions, changes and review history.
