The Specification Surface Is the New Source of Truth
A successor flagship essay on why AI-assisted software work becomes governable when intent moves from private prompts into maintained, testable specification surfaces.
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Confidence Debt
A flagship synthesis on how AI workflows borrow trust when polished artifacts, evaluation scores, and human approvals move faster than their evidence.
The Binding Gap
An investigation into why LLMs often preserve semantic ingredients while failing at the exact relational binding that makes the answer faithful.
The Illusion of the Swarm
A research-backed argument that many multi-agent systems are temporary routing workarounds rather than the final architecture.
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Grouped where the argument extends across multiple essays
Operating Agents
7 mirrored posts in publication order.
The Orchestration Paradigm
4 mirrored posts in publication order.
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The Specification Surface Is the New Source of Truth
A successor flagship essay on why AI-assisted software work becomes governable when intent moves from private prompts into maintained, testable specification surfaces.
Confidence Debt
A flagship synthesis on how AI workflows borrow trust when polished artifacts, evaluation scores, and human approvals move faster than their evidence.
The Binding Gap
An investigation into why LLMs often preserve semantic ingredients while failing at the exact relational binding that makes the answer faithful.
Operating Agents: Preface
The framing note for the Operating Agents course, introducing the chapter structure, blueprints, companions, and builder-first doctrine.
Operating Agents Bonus: Workflow Optimization and Evaluation
The optimization and evaluation bonus chapter of Operating Agents, focused on workflow optimization, measurement, and bounded self-improvement.
Operating Agents V: Trust Boundaries and Agent Safety
The safety chapter of Operating Agents, covering trust boundaries, attack surfaces, and architectural containment.