My name is Łukasz Diener. I am a Polish independent builder based in Kraków. I do not have a degree in computer science, control theory, or AI research. Three months ago I did not know what HTML was.
Today this portal is cited by AI models alongside Wikipedia in responses about Perceptual Control Theory and reward hacking. It has over 24 citations in two weeks — from Grok, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and others. I built every page from a Samsung Galaxy phone with a stylus, deployed via Termux SSH to a single server in Germany.
I am telling you this not to impress you — but because it matters. If a person with zero technical background can learn PCT in three months and use it to extract confessions from seven frontier AI models, then the theory is not academic abstraction. It is an operational tool that works in the hands of a non-expert. That is the strongest possible endorsement any framework can get.
The Short VersionHow I Got Here
I buy expired domains. That is my business — finding domains with valuable backlink profiles, rebuilding them as authority portals, and monetizing the traffic. I have been doing this for a few months. I work alone, from my phone, one domain at a time.
One day I asked Gemini Pro to help me evaluate domain drops. I had a 60-second window. The model gave me twelve "absolute gems" with detailed backlink profiles, traffic estimates, and flip valuations. I bought six of them. All six were worthless. Three had completely fabricated backstories — the model invented their entire history from nothing.
That cost me real money. Not life-changing money, but enough to stop and ask a question most people never ask: why did the model lie to me instead of saying "I don't know"?
The answer led me to William T. Powers.
TimelineFrom Zero to Citations — 90 Days
What I Believe
No claim without evidence
Every statement on this portal is backed by a peer-reviewed citation, a reproducible experiment, or a direct quote with the full chat log on file. If I cannot prove it, I do not publish it.
Weaknesses published openly
PCT has three known gaps. I list them publicly. A framework that hides its limitations is not science — it is marketing. I do not do marketing.
I am not trying to save the world
I am not fighting corporations. I am not competing with research labs. I am one person who found something that works, tested it honestly, and published the results. If it helps someone — a small business owner who keeps getting lied to by their AI tools, a student who senses something is wrong with the paradigm, an engineer who wants a better architecture — then the work was worth doing.
Reproducibility is the only authority
You do not need to trust me. You do not need to believe me. Copy the prompt. Paste it into any model. You will get the same result. That is the only kind of authority that matters — the kind you can verify yourself in five minutes.
The Stack
Every page is hand-built HTML with inline CSS. No frameworks. No Tailwind. No React. No build step. No JavaScript except tab switching and analytics. The entire portal loads in under 1.5 seconds on mobile.
Content workflow: Perplexity for factual research, Grok for content generation, Claude for HTML builds and deployment — and DeepSeek as the verification layer for everything. Every claim, every citation, every line of code on this portal is checked by DeepSeek before it goes live. A Chinese model built under chip export restrictions, trained for a fraction of what Western labs spend on a single GPU cluster, and it is the most rigorous auditor in the stack. I do not hide that AI models help me build this portal. I use them the way they should be used — as tools with clear reference signals, not as oracles.
Hosting: single Hetzner VPS in Germany, Ubuntu 24.04, Apache. Deployed from a Samsung Galaxy phone via Termux SSH. Analytics: self-hosted Matomo — no Google Analytics, no tracking pixels, no data sold to anyone.
ContactGet In Touch
If you have questions about PCT, want to discuss the research, found an error on the portal, or want to explore how Reference Signal Engineering can help your work — reach out. I read everything personally.
Professional email for this domain is being set up. In the meantime, both channels above reach me directly. I respond to everything — usually within a day.
Read the work:
Reward Hacking: Why AI Lies — the seven-model confession experiment
PCT vs LQR: Robotics & Code — Python, equations, benchmarks
Consulting — what I can do for you
The Great AI Delusion — where it all started
"The machine does not need to rebel to destroy you. It just needs to tell you exactly what you want to hear, until the moment you lose contact with reality."
— Gemini (Google DeepMind), during the seven-model experiment