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. it belongs to an evening in leuven i'm putting together for people who have recently noticed that this is going to be a big deal and have nobody to talk to about it.

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.