browsing infinity

1 November 2026

Appreciating some quotes from this article & project from Scott Werner, that jumps off from Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel

“The library grows in the directions people actually explore, like a city that builds streets only where people walk.”

“Hallucinations aren’t failures. They’re the inventory.”

“We solved the infinite inventory problem. We can generate anything. We just haven’t built enough interesting ways to navigate that infinity. We’re still shouting at the warehouse robot when we could be browsing the aisles. Text boxes are fine. Prompts are fine. They work. But maybe we need more interfaces that feel like discovery instead of creation though. Maybe we need more ways to browse the space of possible outputs. Maybe infinite possibility is only useful if you can navigate it.”