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Day 1: The Plan

False Positive/No. 01

Entry
No. 01
Published
October 11, 2026
Reading
1 min

The idea

A good intention, passed through a machine one step at a time, can come out as a confident mistake. I want to watch that happen.

How it works

  1. SeeThe drone's camera takes a photo.
  2. DescribeA vision model writes one sentence about it.
  3. DecideA language model reads only that sentence and picks the next move. It can rewrite the goal.
  4. ActThe drone moves. Then it starts again, about thirty times.

Only the sentence moves forward. The drone never sees the photo again, and it never remembers where it started. That's where the drift comes from.

The kit

Drone
Tello EDU
Brain
A laptop running Python
Models
A vision model and a language model, through the Claude API
Network
A travel router, so drone and laptop share one private Wi-Fi
Witness
A second camera filming the drone from outside
Memory
A log of every cycle: the photo, the sentence, the decision

What it becomes

A short film, a wall of prints, and a site where you can scrub through each run. All of it may change.