Published: at 10:00 AM
· 7 min readWhen 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.
Writing
Notes on systems, data, and building things that expose their own reasoning.
Published: at 10:00 AM
· 8 min readWhy 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.
Published: at 05:45 PM
· 10 min readI wrote 76KB of docs before letting the AI build
Why I wrote a full spec pack before building an autonomous European equities research system with an AI agent, and why the docs were useful precisely because they were allowed to change.
Published: at 05:30 PM
· 9 min readAgents are useful when they leave receipts
A European equity research pipeline built around audit trails, backtests, refusal points, and a dashboard that exposes what the agents did instead of hiding it.
Published: at 11:00 AM
· 14 min readBuilding a Purchasing Power Visualizer with AI-Assisted Development
How I built and refined an interactive app to measure French purchasing power in minutes of work - from minimum wage to median salary, from a magazine article to a full economic tool, with AI as both copilot and auditor.