AI - Etienne de Bruin

Etienne de Bruin

Sign in Subscribe

AI

A collection of 3 posts

Life Loops

The Missing Layer in World Model Architecture A White Paper on Temporal Experience in Autonomous Agents Etienne de Bruin // February 2026 Abstract World models have emerged as a foundational concept in AI research, promising agents that can predict, plan, and act with human-like foresight. From Ha and Schmidhuber's

I Rebuilt My 2004 Side Project Over Christmas. The LLM Made Me Fall in Love With Building Again.

I Rebuilt My 2004 Side Project Over Christmas. The LLM Made Me Fall in Love With Building Again.

The friction that used to kill ideas is gone. That weird thought at 11pm - "what if the signup was a game?" - doesn't die in the gap between imagination and implementation anymore.

The MaaS Manifesto

The MaaS Manifesto

Why Made as a Service Will Systematically Replace Large Portions of SaaS A whitepaper by Etienne de Bruin Jan 6th, 2026 Executive Summary Software as a Service solved a 1990s problem: how to distribute complex software when infrastructure, deployment, and maintenance were prohibitively expensive. It succeeded by centralizing ownership and