Pieter Maes
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Software wrangler, interested in how LLMs can be used to augment reading & thinking - pieterma.es
I don’t have much local model experience, but the main bottleneck was the agent’s loop and good tool calling to browse the notes. The topic parsing doesn’t require that much intelligence, and the linking of topics was done with co-occurrence and graph algorithms, outside the LLM.
January 14, 2026 at 7:44 AM
I don’t have much local model experience, but the main bottleneck was the agent’s loop and good tool calling to browse the notes. The topic parsing doesn’t require that much intelligence, and the linking of topics was done with co-occurrence and graph algorithms, outside the LLM.
I've written a blog about how it works and what I learned pieterma.es/syntopic-rea...
Reading across books with Claude Code | Pieter Maes
In which we teach an agent to read syntopically.
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January 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I've written a blog about how it works and what I learned pieterma.es/syntopic-rea...