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About Ernan Hughes, projects, publications, and research.

About Ernan Hughes

“I believe AI will become the primary way we interact with all information and technology.”

Active Projects

✍️ Writer

A writing too to enhance your output using AI.

🕵️ Stephanie

Stephanie is a local assistant that constantly indexes your ideas, files, and context, bringing the right information into your current conversation automatically. It is like having a memory-augmented subconscious AI.

GitHub: Stephanie

📺 Too Much YouTube

This tool filters your YouTube subscriptions and transcripts to find only what is truly relevant, using your current session context to highlight key segments worth watching.

GitHub: Too Much YouTube

🧬 Cognitive Assistant (Co)

This is an evolving experiment in building a true AI collaborator, blending prompt templates, memory, reasoning, and rhythm. It ties into the theories behind Freestyle Cognition and powers many of the book’s sessions.

GitHub: Co

Publications

Freestyle Cognition Book Cover

Freestyle Cognition
A New Way of Thinking and Building with AI

Agent Architectures Book Cover

Agent Architectures
Advanced Strategies for Intelligent LLM Systems

Current Book

Right now, I am building Applied AI, with this very website as a real-time demonstration of freestyle cognition. It is a living example of how AI can be used to amplify human projects, creativity, and momentum.

Research

My recent paper, Cross-Modal Cognitive Mapping, explores a method for modeling human thought by linking language, visual generation, and user selection behavior. The framework aims to better understand how people conceptualize ideas across cultures and individuals, with potential applications in AI alignment, cognitive science, and personalized systems.

Read the paper here

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Mission

Use AI effectively to turn ideas into execution.

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