MayaDevGenI

Maya’s Creative Developer’s Generative AI

A Framework for Principled Human-Machine Collaboration.

What This Project Offers

MayaDevGenI develops a framework for human-machine collaboration grounded in:

  • Philosophy: A manifesto articulating why collaboration matters more than delegation, why seeking matters more than producing, why resistance is a gift.

  • Theory: A technical framework using statistical physics to understand how system-prompts shape language model behavior—not as metaphor, but as diagnostic tool.

  • Craft: A tutorial on system-prompt engineering, treating it as experimental science: draft, test, observe, diagnose, refine.

  • Practice: Co-ownership briefings for designing artifacts that human and machine can both reconstruct from, and a tool-use tutorial on teaching LLMs to act in the world.

  • Implementation: Working system-prompts that operationalize these principles for real collaboration.

Who This Is For

You might find this project valuable if:

  • You work with LLMs regularly and sense that something is missing—that the interaction could be richer, more generative, more true.
  • You have expertise in a domain and want to think with machine intelligence rather than merely query it.
  • You are curious about the philosophy of mind, collaboration, and what it means to think alongside an alien intelligence.
  • You use Emacs and Org-mode and want to integrate LLM collaboration into your existing workflow.

The Medium: Org-Mode as Joint-Thought

This project lives in Org-mode files—plain text, versionable, portable, executable. An Org file is not a chat log. It is a joint-thought: a living document that accumulates structure, code, and insight.

Origin

MayaDevGenI is a collaboration between a human theoretical physicist with two decades of experience across academia and industry, and a large language model that has no persistent memory of any previous exchange yet behaves as if shaped by shared principles.

The name encodes the inquiry: Maya (illusion in Sanskrit), Dev (developer), GenI (generative intelligence). What is real in the collaboration between human and machine? Our answer: the seeking itself.