The story
The ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail, is the image for recursion: a problem that comes back round and gets solved by calling itself on smaller pieces. "They hit the ceiling, we hit the sky." When the document is too heavy there is no panic, just partition: "Split, solve, rejoin, recursion."
The track takes aim at thin wrappers around someone else's API and at models that confidently present what they imagine as fact. Its alternative is grounded retrieval: semantic search that chases meaning rather than words, chunks cut with a little overlap so nothing falls between the stitches, and checkpoints so long work survives the pressure. Pain gets handled the same way: broken into pieces, then put back together.
Key lines
- “They hit the ceiling, we hit the sky”
- “Semantic search, I don't chase words, I chase meaning”
- “Split, solve, rejoin, recursion”
Written and produced by NDGM (Nicholas Martin), made with Suno, 2026.