This journal chronicles the life of Metamorfon — its developments, its design choices, and the reflections they inspire. It is written at a decidedly irregular pace.
Defining what Metamorfon is by what it is not may seem strange. Yet this is often the path by which the identity of a conceptually distinct tool becomes visible. Five common confusions deserve to be dispelled, because each corresponds to a category of tools from which Metamorfon distinguishes itself by a positive trait that the comparison brings out more clearly than any direct definition could. Not an everyday AI assistant....
Metamorfon integrates eight distinct providers — Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, xAI, Cohere — where most tools on the market stop at one or two. This choice is not a matter of functional richness or commercial coverage. It follows from a methodological requirement without which Metamorfon would not do what it claims to do. And it carries, more broadly, a certain view of what the artificial intelligence...
The name of a software application is rarely self-explanatory. Metamorfon's name is no exception. This name is the sole survivor of a conceptual triad whose other two components disappeared during the design process. This disappearance is not an accident to be concealed, but a design decision whose rationale deserves to be explained, in memory of the ideas that were set aside. Three Modes for Three Gestures Originally,...