Writing

Notes on systems, data, and building things that expose their own reasoning.

Published:Jun 10, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

· 5 min read

The bug is not the bug

Whoever defines the bug controls the investigation. The first plausible explanation is a trap.

Published:Jun 7, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

· 6 min read

The correction is the problem

TDD biases toward testable code. Code review biases toward reviewer taste. Every fix introduces its own distortions.

Published:May 31, 2026 |  at 02:00 PM

· 10 min read

Telling an LLM to 'be creative' is one of the worst things you can do

What Arthur Koestler's bisociation theory suggests, and how I ported the Open-Collider method into a Hermes skill.

Published:May 16, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

· 7 min read

When mocks lie

A concrete integration bug from an AI-built research system: both sides of a contract had passing unit tests, but the real components broke when they met.

Published:May 15, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

· 8 min read

Why I made the AI stop before every commit

What changed when checkpoint gates stopped being just approval steps and became the place where the architecture improved.