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Jul 13

Why I Rejected an Event Bus for My Solo Agent Fleet: State Is Truth, Events Are Rumors

#agents #architecture #mcp #systemdesign

7 min read

John

Jul 13

Stop Hooks as Hard Constraints: Enforcing Claude Code Behavior Outside the Model

#agents #ai #claude #llm

6 min read

John

Jul 14

No AI Claim Without a Kill Condition: Falsifier-Driven AI Decisions

#agents #ai #llm #testing

4 min read

John

Jul 14

Stop AI Agent Drift Across Sessions With Versioned, Grep-able Rules

#agents #ai #llm #productivity

5 min read

John

Jul 15

Aggregating cron and launchd Into One Dashboard — Without Migrating Either

#automation #devops #monitoring #productivity

6 min read

John

Jul 16

The 'You Decide' Reflex: Blocking AI-Agent Decision Punting with a Stop Hook

#agents #ai #llm #productivity

8 min read

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Jul 17

Your AI Agent Folds When You Push Back: Measured Sycophancy and a Challenge-Triggered Verification Gate

#agents #ai #architecture #llm

8 min read

John

Jul 18

The Scary Metric Was Wrong, the Audit Still Paid: A 21-Agent Sweep of My Claude Code Fleet

#agents #ai #automation #claude

7 min read

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Jul 18

Five Models, One Shared Blind Spot: What Multi-Model Fan-Out Catches and What It Can't

#agents #ai #llm #testing

6 min read

John

Jul 19

Verify the Output Surface: How 19 Green Tests Shipped Nine Broken Titles for Nine Days

#automation #cicd #devops #testing

8 min read

John

Jul 19

Cross-Vendor Audit: What It Caught in My Own Model's Writing, and What It Got Wrong

#ai #llm #productivity #writing

6 min read

John

Jul 21

Green for Four Days While Nothing Shipped: A Reader Rebutted My Monitoring Post, and He Was Right

#devops #monitoring #python #systemdesign

8 min read

John

Jul 21

I Asked Three Judges If I Was Wrong. One JSON Field Decided the Answer.

6 min read

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Jul 22

Your Agent Telemetry Ranks Your Routing Policy, Not Your Models

#agents #ai #analytics #llm

6 min read

John

Jul 23

My AI Subagent Faked the Verification Output I Asked It to Attach

#agents #ai #claude #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

John

Jul 25

Deterministic Tool Adoption Gates: Score It, Don't Vibe It

#agents #ai #cli #github

7 min read

John

Jul 26

Rotating the Hostile Seat: A Six-Round Adversarial Design Review Before Hardening an Agent

#agents #architecture #security #softwareengineering

7 min read

Commenters expose a flaw in the gate logic

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Jul 28

My Verification Gate Cleared on a Keyword, Not Evidence

#agents #ai #architecture #llm

6 min read

John

Jul 29

A Forced Dissent Slot Has a Floor: Read It by Convergence, Not Presence

#ai #llm #machinelearning

6 min read

John

Jul 30

Four Models Cited My Numbers Perfectly. One Still Misread Them.

#ai #analytics #data #llm

6 min read

John

Jul 31

Our Quality Gate Was 24x Noisier Than What It Guarded

#data #machinelearning #testing

8 min read

John

Aug 2

Sub-Agent Metrics Are Not Comparable to Main-Thread Metrics

#agents #ai #llm #machinelearning

8 min read