A small reflection on AI, tech, and ecology:

The word “permaculture” does not quite say what it is trying to say. I prefer the term “Symbiotic.”

“Permaculture” is often reduced to gardening or agriculture. But what it points to is much broader.

**Permaculture is symbiotic engineering.**It answers a simple question: how can we live in symbiosis with nature, regenerating it, while producing abundance?

It is not only about growing things.

It is about designing living systems capable of creating abundance without destroying the environment that makes it possible.

Today, we talk about agency in AI as if agency were a recent invention, while nature has been practicing agency all along. Biomimicry already points in this direction: our technical systems often learn to recreate what living systems already know how to organize.

So we might ask: what if the elements of a permacultural system were considered as nodes, as agents, operating within one or several specific environments?

This could blur the boundary between tech and ecology, and allow us to think holistically about techno-natural systems: highly productive, autonomous, self-regenerating, and symbiotic between humans and nature.

What would our systems look like if we designed them as symbiotic ecosystems?