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21 entries
lesson · September 2026
Representation
See, with your own key, how the same question about the Apollo 11 SysML v2 model changes in tokens, cost and correctness as the representation changes.
writing · September 2026
Operationalizing Ontology with Language Models
Projects co-written with language models grow semi-structured data that drifts. An ontology is one approach to consistency I wanted to investigate: what one is, how to run a program over it, what that buys, and the small experiment I designed to find out.
lesson · August 2026
Ontology
Operationalize an ontology with a language model. Give the agent a small model of the kitchen instead of a list of what is in it, so the answers stop wobbling from one session or model to the next, and check that model with a script, because it is only worth having once something checks it.
projects · April 2026
jig
An agent-shape harness that points a real agent at a real CLI and counts what happens: a battery declared in agent-shape.toml, a headless runtime spawned against the fixture, and an LLM judge scoring the transcript on a 4-point scale whose top mark is a first command that was real and worked. A companion check guards the rubric against drift in the tool's own help output.
writing · April 2026
The Larder Lesson
A scrollytelling lesson that builds a small AI harness around meal planning in Claude Code. An applied companion to the AI harnesses series.
lesson · April 2026
Larder
Build a small assistant for dinner out of one agent and a folder of plain files, and learn the shape that transfers to most of the other things you keep doing by hand: when the answer is wrong, correct the file, not the answer.
writing · April 2026
Inference on a Schedule
A nightly CI pipeline that mixes Python and a language model to keep a static site's activity data fresh. The interesting part was discovering which 10% of the work actually needed a model.
projects · April 2026
rune
A Rust CLI that treated a git repository as the canonical home for an agent's skills, subagents, and rules, syncing them into each project's .claude directory behind a content-hash lockfile and a write hook that surfaced drift in the same turn as the edit. Retired once the portable SKILL.md layout made most of what it did a directory of markdown and a symlink.
writing · April 2026
The Hunt for Leverage
On test frameworks that tell agents what to do next, and the design patterns that make LLM-generated tests actually correct.
writing · March 2026
Get Lamp
On dark software factories, where they work, where they might not, and a tool we built to explore the gap.
projects · March 2026
muxr
Harness session multiplexer for AI coding workflows. Owns the harness/campaign/session/segment address across tmux, the filesystem, and your AI runtime so a rename stays coherent in all three.
writing · March 2026
AI Harnesses Are For Everyone
A harness is a set of files that turns a stateless AI model into a persistent collaborator. The major labs are racing to move inference closer to your work. Here's how to meet them halfway.
writing · March 2026
LLM-Mediated Experimentation
Giving an LLM access to a real test bench transformed a year-old debugging effort. The root cause was not what anyone thought.
writing · March 2026
Go Architecture for LLM-Maintained Codebases
Structural choices in a Go project built mostly by LLMs: making wrong code fail to compile rather than fail code review.
projects · March 2026
sysml
A single Rust binary that parses SysML v2 models into a queryable knowledge graph, exposed through a clap CLI for humans and CI and a stdio MCP server for agents, both over the same core. The open question is whether the CLI is the cheaper transport for an agent, and I have not measured it yet.
projects · March 2026
sysml-bench
An evaluation harness asking whether giving a tool-augmented LLM more tools actually helps it answer questions about a SysML v2 engineering model. 88 tasks scored per field against published schemas, run across four tool sets and six public corpora, with a pre-registered replication whose frozen hypothesis did not survive the independent corpus.
projects · March 2026
synthesist
A Rust CLI that records the process governing a body of code (what was planned, what was agreed, what phase the work is in) as an append-only claim graph an agent can query instead of inferring from a diff. Workflow state is a per-asserter JSON-LD log read back through a disposable index, under a phase machine that forbids every write until a human approves the plan.
writing · March 2026
Back to Composable
On why the agent tooling ecosystem is rediscovering the Unix shell, and why MCP is starting to look like Maven.
writing · February 2026
The Merge Request as {Friction, Leverage}
The merge request is both the thing slowing teams down and the thing keeping them safe. That tension is real and worth sitting with.
writing · February 2026
Self Inventory
Between dropping off the kids and my first meeting I built a scrollytelling analysis platform. What does that mean for the skills I spent years developing?
projects · February 2026
Harness Explorer
Static analysis for the AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and skills files that define how an agent behaves in a codebase. A single Go binary follows their references into a knowledge graph, scores it for redundancy, contradiction, and information density, and ranks where the next hour of harness editing saves the most tokens; whether that ranking approximates what matters is untested, since no calibration dataset exists.