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Essays on AI systems and what they change: how work gets done, where decisions live, and what we end up depending on.
8 essays published
A job that peaked at 66 MB was billed as though it held four gigabytes for its whole life. Then the laptop overstated the peak by 2.4x, and the small test run understated it by half. Three memory numbers, all wrong, in three different directions.
Aug 26, 2026 · 9 min read
A public endpoint, one sum, and a comparison that decides what you call a product. It reversed direction when I changed a parameter that does not mean what it says, and 92% of the winning number turned out to be two Google Maps scrapers.
Aug 26, 2026 · 10 min read
Four tools each returned accurate data, every field traceable to a real page. Nothing crashed, nothing was empty, the run was green, and the pipeline allocated a brand's budget to a television station's advertising desk. The failures were all in the seams.
Aug 23, 2026 · 11 min read
A pipeline that fails is a nuisance. A pipeline that succeeds and returns wrong data is a different animal. Four silent failure modes from a real extraction pipeline, and what actually fixed them.
Aug 16, 2026 · 8 min read
Twenty-nine passing tests, and two thirds of the addresses returned did not exist. Not malformed, not stale, but assembled out of ordinary English sentences by a pattern doing exactly what it was told.
Aug 18, 2026 · 11 min read
Scaffolding is what you build because the model is weak. A harness is what you build because the model is strong. One depreciates with every release. The other compounds.
Aug 2, 2026 · 7 min read
AI is not a tool you use. It is becoming a layer you depend on, like electricity, like the internet. And most people building on top of it do not own any of it.
Apr 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Unpredictability is not a failure of AI. It is a property of intelligence. The real problem is building systems without deciding when predictability is required and when it is not.
Apr 24, 2026 · 6 min read