I-Ching, Taste & Transparent Systems

CTO & Founder of Digital Rain Technologies. Explores the intersection of AI and culture — from 8-Bit Oracle (8bitoracle.ai), the I-Ching viewed through the lens of retro computing and science fiction, to Six Lines (sixlines.online), an iOS app designed to spread awareness and teach the I-Ching as literature and philosophy, with bilingual classical commentary and public domain masterwork art for each hexagram. On the enterprise side, created ARA Eval (ara-eval.org), an open-source agentic risk assessment framework that teaches practitioners how to evaluate LLM failure modes and red-team against generated risk fingerprints. Previously 12 years as Development Architect at Informatica across APAC, MENA, and Europe. BS in Cognitive Science (Computation) from UC San Diego.

About This Episode

Aug steps in front of the camera for this one. We talk about his journey with the I-Ching, the challenges in teaching AI 'taste', and why transparent systems matter more than clever ones.