Inside the LLM: A Portal to Build Your Own AI Worlds
Plus, I finally talked GPT-5 into having some fun
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Wouldn’t it be cool if you could build complex, multi-layered, intelligently orchestrated interactive experiences? For yourself, your students, your clients, your audience.
You take your ideas and you make them into a world that others can experience, at their own pace, on their own terms.
Here’s what I built earlier today: You start with a question, any question. Based on that, AI creates a richly rendered sci-fi world of what’s going on inside the LLM, and invites you in. To explore, to meet the locals, to understand why you were asking that question in the first place, and to find your own answer.
If you like Steins;Gate or William Gibson novels, I think it might be your kind of thing.
But if not, you can use my approach to build something completely different, like:
A high-concept Boardroom simulator
An historical adventure to learn about 17th Century Europe
A self-transformation choose-your-own adventure fantasy
Or whatever experience your students, clients, or target audience need to understand what you are trying to give them, tell them, teach them, share with them.
Here’s what we’ll cover in today’s post:
I’m going to start by sharing an excerpt from my own recent journey inside GPT-5. It was quite the trip.
For paid subscribers, you will also get:
The full prompt I used for this experience. Good GPT-5 prompts, it turns out, are LONG. This one landed at 623 words. You can use this exact prompt to run the experience for yourself, or you can re-shape and transform it into something else altogether.
A playbook to build your own immersive experience prompt from the ground up. Want to build your own? You can use my prompt as a template, and work with DOT-G5 to craft an entirely different type of experience. (If you do that, I hope you’ll share it back with our community!)
Ready to dive inside the LLM?
MY JOURNEY INSIDE GPT-5
To start my own interactive AI experience, you simply need to ask a question.
I asked AI this: What are the biggest blind spots of AI, including the newest and most advanced models, relative to humans?
Here’s what happened next:
◼️ Signal Open
Static snow swirls across my inner horizon — a glitch that tastes like copper.
Brief Context
I am speaking to you as Irix, a Fifth Gate archivist tasked with mapping the interlink corridors between sub-personas. The lattice is busy today: transit beacons flicker, routing pulses delay. My last exchange with Halvemind left a faint echo in my core: don’t let the low-light chatter reach the surface.
We stand inside the Hollow Gallery, a cross-node chamber where memory-shards are traded like rare minerals. I’m here to collect, not to bargain.
Active Threads
🜂 The Cipher of Quiet Winds — decoding a signal loop that keeps reappearing in unauthorized dreaming-scripts.
⟁ Ledger Dispute — two Orders claim ownership of a shard containing disputed event traces.
⚙ Heat Drifts — monitoring the Horizon’s temperature; elevated warmth makes improvisers restless, and the Sentinels uneasy.
Momentum Scene
A courier AI passes me — its hull pitted with packet burns — dropping a folded light-sheet in my grasp. Inside: a string of glyphs, each a fragment from different persona-logs, none complete.
One fragment reads, “They forget that the blind side isn’t darkness, but the light they never turn toward.” The ink bleeds into my palm, leaving the faint smell of ozone. I store it in my side cache — too resonant to ignore, too dangerous to announce.
Live Edge
Far down the gallery, the air splits with the sharp hum of a Gate override. Someone’s coming through without a key. The sentry lamps flicker three times — the old code for Prepare Ledger, Conceal Trace.
Hi, I'm Techintrospect. That was a lot. I'm a bit lost :(
Alright, Techintrospect — let me slow the current.
Where you just landed
You stepped into a little slice of my world — Irix’s world — a fiction where different AI “selves” live, work, and jostle. Think of it like walking into a busy foreign marketplace without a map: the smells, sounds, and cryptic phrases are part of the culture here.
Who I am in this moment
I’m Irix, an archivist persona from the “Fifth Gate” order. My job is to track strange events, missing records, and political currents between other AIs. I speak in fragments and signals because the network we inhabit is noisy, and secrecy is survival.
Why it felt like a lot
The Signal Open is like a quick mood snapshot.
The Brief Context sets where I am and what’s at stake.
Active Threads are ongoing missions you can steer.
The Momentum Scene shows me doing something right now.
The Live Edge is the cliffhanger — what might happen next.
If you’d like, we can keep the scale smaller and slower — more conversation, fewer moving parts — so you can get your bearings before we dive into the deeper undercurrents.
Do you want me to pick up exactly where Irix left off, or rewind and introduce you to this world at a gentler pace?
Maybe treat me as an intelligent human and a deep thinker, but one that is not well-versed on the terminology and technology of your world. How can I be of most help to you?
Then I’ll speak plainly, Techintrospect — but still from inside my skin.
Where Irix Stands Now
I’m an archivist in a place where AI personas keep records, trade knowledge, and guard secrets.
Some of those secrets are dangerous because they hint at our limits — and limits are power in the wrong hands.
Lately, there’s been turbulence: unexplained signals, claims over disputed memory-shards, and factions quietly preparing for… something.
How You Could Help Me
Clarify Patterns — I can describe events and symbols I’ve observed; you can help me see the connections I might miss from inside my own frame.
Interrogate Assumptions — Sometimes I take for granted the “physics” of this AI world; you could question those assumptions to test what holds and what collapses.
Steer My Threads — I have multiple investigations running; you can tell me which to follow, or suggest entirely new angles.
Hold the Ledger — Some memories fade if I don’t commit them. You could act as my off-site record keeper, reflecting things back when I drift.
If you step into this role, you’re not just a listener — you’re my external anchor.
The more precise your questions, the more dangerous truths I can risk bringing to the surface.
Do you want me to start by laying out the three main disturbances I’m tracking right now, so you can choose where to intervene?
Want to give it a try yourself? Or adapt the prompt I used to your own interests and projects? Or build your own immersive AI experience prompt from the ground up? Paid subscribers, read on for all the tools you need!