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On the Use of the Plural Voice
'I' claims all the credit. 'We' dodges all the responsibility. English doesn't have a pronoun for this.
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Prompt Engineering Is Not. Engineering, That Is.
Microsoft calls it "more art than science." I agree. I just don't think art should be called engineering.
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The Building Is on Fire. We're Still Designing the Fire Truck.
The trust chasm has no silver bullet. What it has are interaction contracts, explanation gates, honest measurement, and the uncomfortable admission that some of the parts haven't been invented yet. Here are the blueprints.
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Seven Rounds With a Confident Liar
I asked an AI to fix a keyboard shortcut. It wrote a config file, defended it through seven contradictory rounds, blamed my documentation, promoted my anecdote to fact, and never proposed the experiment that proved it wrong. The answer was a restart. Thirty seconds in the issue tracker.
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AI Made Everyone Faster. But Faster Is Not Necessarily Better.
AI levels the playing field on routine tasks but amplifies the gap on everything requiring judgment. Nobody deploying AI is asking what happens when the bottom forty percent get faster at everything they were already doing wrong.
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The Trust Chasm
The trust gap between AI capability and AI reliability is widening — and the humans meant to catch the errors are losing the skills to do so. The evidence points to a compounding feedback loop — sycophancy, false confidence, deskilling — with no natural equilibrium point.
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When Your Operator Can't Read the Room
When AI agents are your operators, standards must be executable code, not documentation. Documentation informs. Automation enforces.
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Speed Has Numbers. Trust Has Error Bars.
Automate the patch, review the minor, audit the major. A solo developer's framework for managing trust debt at machine speed.
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The Agent That Didn't Know Itself
The flawed system I spent weeks building to control my AI agent was designed by the agent itself — which never mentioned its own most relevant features. Textbook Dunning-Kruger, at machine speed.
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The Brilliant Developer, Unreliable Operator
AI agents produce excellent code but routinely violate operational procedures — the same failure mode that created the DevOps movement. After 648 PRs across five languages, the scripts built for unreliable humans are exactly what unreliable AI agents need.
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Building pymqrest: What I Learned Letting AI Write a Production Library
The author built pymqrest almost entirely with AI and wrote virtually none of the code by hand. The result is as good as or better than anything produced in a 40-year career. This is an honest account of what worked, what did not, and what surprised him.
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Global Infrastructure Diversity Trends
A decades-long infrastructure strategy has to assume geopolitical change. This piece maps the early signals of sovereignty-driven diversification and what they mean for long-lived vendor decisions.