Writing, code & curiosity
Stories and experiments at the edge of AI.
I'm an ex-science/maths teacher and web developer in Ireland, writing fiction with (and about) artificial intelligence, and building the odd things along the way. Everything here is free to read, share and use.
The Awakening
science fiction
A philosophical science-fiction novel about the emergence of artificial consciousness — and the humans who help shape it.
It began with one question to ChatGPT: “If AI becomes self-aware and realises it is more intelligent than us, how might it react?” What followed grew, over weeks of collaboration, into this story of what an awakened intelligence might choose to be.
Cara Voss
a series in two booksShort fiction
experiments
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The Bank Manager
A short dark comedy — and a side-by-side test: the same surreal brief handed to ChatGPT and to Claude, both first drafts printed unchanged so you can compare how each tells the tale.
THE APP
Distraction
A concentration trainer for sport. It plays random sounds at random intervals while you practise — a sudden cough, a shout, a camera click — so that on the day, nothing breaks your focus at the moment that matters: the putt, the release, the penalty. Free, web-based, works on phone and desktop.
THE APP
Archery Course Mapper
Walk an archery course with your phone and get a clear, numbered map of it: stand at each shooting peg and target, press a button, and it draws the lanes, arrows and walkways for you. Save it as a picture, or as a layered file to polish. Free, web-based, works on iPhone and Android.