New website is live!

In August 2024 the former adappt.io was renamed to adaptive-emergent.com to narrow the scope from web3 distributed networks to biomimetic ones (read the three part series on this starting here). Along with the name change was a new website, written with Claude AI as it was at the time.

The intent of that website was to show a gallery of WebGL demonstrations of animal communications.

Twelve months later, we started publishing a seven-part series of articles on LinkedIn on why “natural intelligence” is different than the artificial variety. This was going to be transferred to an old blogspot area, but instead we found some quite nice blogs that didn’t have to compromise on looks and ease of use. So the intent was:

• adaptive-emergent.com for demos, and
• blog.adaptive-emergent.com for words as a link.

Doing this second site using ChatGPT, and ChatGPT Codex, proved to be much more productive. Codex is an AI of few words: it does a lot of thinking, takes its time, and gets it right (sometimes it gets the wrong thing right, but that is more on us humans in being clear what we want). ChatGPT is good for a conversation and working through approaches and what’s possible. These two “personalities” both see the same codebase, so progress can be swift.

So we turned the model around: the blog site became the main site.

This announcement would have been a few weeks earlier, but we are still in the “99% left to do with 99% of the code done” world. The culprit is CSS; it sucks. Of course ChatGPT tells me I am “absolutely right.. we’ll just (do these contortions) to (trick the css into fitting)”. AI can’t take a step back and you sometimes end up with increasing levels of kludges. I’m sure in 2026 the reasoning will have figured this out.

New features

The new website offers articles in easy to find ways:

• you can freeform search for posts that have a word
• every post is tagged with things like #biomimicry and you can look at all the posts that have it
• we have the seven-part series, and a three parter on the #history of adaptive-emergent
• you can also look by category, where this is the type of article: an announcement from us like this one, profiles of companies doing biomimetic software, book reviews, podcasts… we hope to keep it fresh so you can come back
• Contact us! It seems to work (we hope)
• A “Why” page is the value proposition for approaching software this way.
• A fun little “factoid” that appears next to or below a post, and a link where you can read about some of the amazing natural properties applied to human problems

Upcoming features

Now that adaptive-emergent is one site, expect the following:

• The Why page may become a full whitepaper, if it makes business sense to do so
• The long awaited gallery of software. We actually have about 3-4 builds right now, just need to add them so you can flip through them
• Another series is in the works that explains the difference between “decentralised” and “distributed”
• More articles, as it becomes easier to add them
• Perhaps a mailing list so you don’t have to keep checking back.

This little project is picking up steam

What started as a curiousity project looks like it could have something to do with the next chapter of software development, as AI gets really big, but it can also get really small, just like in Nature. Let’s see!