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Cover for the AI in Systems Engineering guest lectures: the course drawn as three motifs side by side, the agent loop as a ring of four stations, the cost ladder as rungs read from the cheapest answer up to the least reversible one, and the parse-to-index pipeline running from plain text into a typed index.

Wayne State University

AI in Systems Engineering, guest lectures · October 12–26, 2026 · 3 parts · Upcoming

Three weeks of one argument: what an agent actually is, what it takes to trust one with engineering work, and what structure that work needs underneath it.

Read them in order. Each talk ends where the next one begins.

  1. Hands and feet

    What an agent is, and why git matters. Talk one of three for the course: the loop, the context window, the folder that loads first, and the two gates.

    October 12, 2026Working draft
  2. The ladder and the meter

    AI in engineering practice. Talk two of three: meta-models, graphs, retrieval, stuffing, and the evaluation loop that earns each rung.

    October 19, 2026Working draft
  3. Structure over the trove

    Meta-models, SysML v2, and one question asked four ways. Talk three of three, leading into the Representation lesson.

    October 26, 2026Working draft
A boot chain drawn as a row of links, firmware to bootloader to kernel to initramfs to root filesystem, with the links an image can actually enforce at day 0 gathered inside a bracket and the rest of the chain left open after it.

Melbourne Red Hat User Group

Melbourne, Florida · October 2026 · Upcoming

  1. How much OS trust can you bake in at day 0?

    What a Linux image can enforce in the boot or read path, and what it can only watch after the fact. Scoped to what I can actually show.

    October 2026Working draft