Makoto Suwamoto
Japanese–Greek, in Tokyo. I build AI systems that check their own work, and write about why people do or don't get better.
FIS Practice Gym
Deliberate practice for psychotherapists. Respond to a hard moment in session, get scored against FIS-style rubrics, then see how Yalom, Rogers or Linehan might have answered.
Agents that check their own work
Every check returns pass, fail or unknown, and unknown never counts as a pass.
- Blind EvalA tool that grades finished work (an app, a website, an essay) in a fresh context with zero knowledge of how it was made, so the score can't be swayed by the build story.
- One-Person AI Operations SetupClaude Code configured as a standing assistant for my corporate and general affairs work.
- DRAKON Chart SkillAn agent skill that turns procedures, requirements or code into genuine DRAKON flowcharts, the visual language built for the Buran space program, and refuses to hand over a chart it hasn't proven.
- Open Inquiry LabReproducible computational research on how public knowledge corpora represent societies.
Essays
Long-form on psychology, self-improvement and AI, mostly skeptical of the promises.
- What the Logs SayI asked the most capable AI model in the world to read every prompt I'd typed this year and tell me what happened.Jul 2026
- The Case Against MyselfA month building a hundred-page wiki to confirm what I already knew. Then I asked Claude to take it apart.May 2026
- Head of PsychometricsPersonality tests, kebabs, and the party you're already at.Mar 2026
- The Pit Is a SofaA sixteen-year-old dissertation, a week of late nights in Milan, and self-improvement's most expensive lie.Mar 2026
Elsewhere
Economics you play instead of read. Ten chapters, from housing and congestion to banking and causal evidence, each one predict, experiment, explain.
Japanese–Greek, in Tokyo
Economics, then years in large-event operations, now AI operations in Tokyo. Between the jobs I build communities and the tools they run on.
- Economics
- First degree
- Large-event operations
- Payroll for 1,200 hourly staff, 25,000 timesheets reconciled
- AI operations
- Tokyo, now: AI-assisted workflows for corporate and general affairs
- Communities
- A ~500-member alumni association, the Greek community in Japan
Now building
Commits over the last 30 days, as of 2026-11-14.
- Open Inquiry Lab7 commits
Say hello
Happy to talk about agent and evaluation setups.