Why I'm building Hyphae: provenance over prediction (and the 3-line baseline that tied it)
Mario Gutierrez
A few months ago I set out to build a cognitive substrate without a large language model in the answering path. I had a thesis I liked, a Rust workspace, and a lot of conviction. Then I wrote a three-line baseline that tied it on every metric I cared about. This is the story of why that was the best thing that happened to the project — and why I'm still building it, just pointed at a sharper target. The problem I actually care about When a language model answers a grounded question, it paraphras