From semiotic processing to drive ethical, sustainable AI to tools-driven game design, Sayre Blake is a systems engineer, founder, author, CEO, and maker pushing the bounds of interactive technology that puts people first.
Featured writing
“We’ve made a computerized screaming void of the collective human subconscious. Would you like to talk to it?” What LLMs become when you take a step back, and why it's actually not that scary in the light.
Current work
Structured soft-skills learning built around practice, human-authored goals, and useful feedback.
An independent studio collective making games, stories, and accessible tools for creators and adventurers.
I gotta do something to satisfy my artist side! How-tos, stories, and oddball essays drenched in retro-VHS flavor on a whenever-the-hell-I-have-time schedule (roughly 2-4 times a year right now). Check out the latest below and subscribe to stay updated!
Across my work
Sayre Blake
“We’ve made a computerized screaming void of the collective human subconscious. Would you like to talk to it?” What LLMs become when you take a step back, and why it's actually not that scary in the light.
OnlyFounders
A candid conversation with Anne Gillaspie about bounded AI, the economics of compute, enshittification, founder restraint, remote culture, and building technology that knows its limits.
Sayre Blake
When we really look at the technology without preconceptions of AI, LLMs stop looking like "synthetic intelligence" and more like a very weird, very new kind of compute.
Sayre Blake
Why and how I do what I do in all my systems work, at SkillSaige and beyond.
SkillSaige
SkillSaige 2.0 is now available with a stronger Logic Lattice, more scene control, and on-device text-to-speech for Saige.
Jade Ember Studios
Jade Ember Studios has a new public home for the games, creative tools, and durable sense of wonder that shape the studio’s work.
