About
Where this came from and who maintains it.
Sloptics is maintained by Rick Hallett - a software engineer with 5 years of production experience in TypeScript, Python, and Go, and 15 years before that as a cognitive behavioural therapist.
The taxonomy, the detectors, and the vocabulary all originate from The Pit - an open-source evaluation platform for AI-human collaboration. Over 321 session decisions, 1,250+ commits, and 49+ named patterns documented in the field.
The clinical parallel is not decorative. Beck’s cognitive distortion taxonomy (1967) named the shapes of bad thinking. Once a patient recognises “catastrophising,” they can catch it in the wild. The name creates distance. The distance creates choice. Sloptics does the same thing for LLM output.
The full story - the bootcamp, the engineering blog, the CV - lives at oceanheart.ai.
Contact: kai@oceanheart.ai