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Essays and engineering notes on applied AI, agent design, and the choices that make software useful.

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2026

  1. When AI researchers compare notes too soon

    · Essay

    A shared lead can help a team reason—and quietly decide what everyone investigates next.

  2. Where should an agent’s tool call end?

    · Essay

    A single call can contain a search, a program or another agent. The boundary determines which decisions return to the model.

  3. Cheap to continue, hard to start

    · Essay

    How cached context can turn an AI serving optimization into a choice about whose work gets admitted.

  4. What an AI restoration asks us to believe

    · Essay

    A reconstruction can correct a misconception while choosing details the evidence cannot settle.

  5. Your AI should be a difficult customer

    · Essay

    What an agent learns from a purchase—and what happens when a sales pitch becomes a preference it thinks you expressed.

  6. Evidence, authority, and the cost of another question

    · Engineering notes

    How I separate evidence, authority, and spending from an agent’s choice of what to investigate.

  7. Designing AI agents for decisions that keep changing

    · Essay

    Lessons from trying to work out whether rebuilding an exotic could ever make sense for me.