Notes, essays, and things I don't fully understand yet.
Writing that ranges from finished argument to seedling. Filter by topic; maturity shows on each card.
Why Most Agent Demos Stop Before the Hard Part
The gap between doing a task once and operating the same workflow repeatedly.
Don't Write Fallbacks
A fallback postpones an error to where it's harder to diagnose; orthogonal modules remove the class.
The MCP Surface and the Exec Surface
Why every LLM-generated tool call should cross one audited surface — and what stays in code.
List the Excuses an Agent Will Use to Skip a Step
Models don't cut corners; they generate a reason to. Name the rationalizations up front.
Financial RAG Is Not Just Document Search
Filings, market data, calculations, and provenance each want a different system layer.
Model Risk as a Knowledge Representation Problem
What's lost when a model inventory is treated as a spreadsheet, not a graph.
A Standard for Agent-Built Projects
Separate project facts, agent behavior, rules, and execution — before implementation begins.
Evidence That Can Be Traced
Traceability isn't a source column; it's every number reaching back to its raw fact.