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Notes from systems in the field.
Practical writing on agent design, automation reliability, evaluation, and the operational side of applied AI.
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Engineering note
Postmortem: the 2 AM financial-news pipeline
What failed, what changed, and how the production workflow became observable and recoverable.
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Working thesis
Where AI belongs in an automation system
Use models for ambiguity; use schemas, constraints, and deterministic code for everything else.
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Field note
Designing for the human reviewer
Agreement scores are useful, but evidence, controls, and correction paths make an editorial agent operational.
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