No Bootstrap, No Principal: The Day My Audit Log Became Fiction
My v0.1.0 series couldn't talk about authorization, because there wasn't any. v0.2.0 shipped RBAC-lite, scoped API keys, and an encrypted secret vau…
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I Ran My Career Like a Production System for 12 Weeks. The Dashboard Was Wrong Before I Was.
For 25 years I've been the person in the room asking to see the data. In incident reviews, in planning meetings, in one-on-ones with engineers who w…
What Do You Do While AI Codes? I Make Mine Argue With Itself.
Be honest: what do you actually do while the agent types? I used to just watch. Not read, watch . Scroll the diff as it streamed in, nod at code I h…
4,768 LLM Runs, Zero Lost Sweeps: Hardening a Field-Test Runner for Timeouts, Hangs, and Cost
Update — v0.3.0 released. CauterRule is now live on GitHub and PyPI . It turns repeated agent failures into permanent standing rules — extract, repl…
When Your Benchmark Finally Tells the Truth
Update — v0.1.0 released. CauterRule is now live on GitHub and PyPI . It turns repeated agent failures into permanent standing rules — extract a can…
I Thought Role Separation Would Fix the Optimizer. It Didn't.
Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts · The Edit That Fixed 4 Tasks and Broke 1 · I…
I Thought the Optimizer Was the Product. I Was Wrong. The Gate Was.
Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts · The Edit That Fixed 4 Tasks and Broke 1 · I…
I Compared a Local 4B, a Better Cloud Model, and Role Separation. The Results Were Weird.
Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts · The Edit That Fixed 4 Tasks and Broke 1 · I…
What I Learned Building a Diabetes Management Website
A few months ago I started building [reversemydiabetes.co]a small health platform focused on helping people manage type 2 diabetes through diet and…
My Self-Improving Agent Still Couldn't Improve. That Was the Breakthrough.
Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts · The Edit That Fixed 4 Tasks and Broke 1 · I…
I Tried 4 Models to Save My Self-Improving Agent. All 4 Failed.
Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts · The Edit That Fixed 4 Tasks and Broke 1 · T…
I Let an LLM Rewrite Its Own Prompt. The Real Win Was the Gate That Rejected It.
Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts · The Edit That Fixed 4 Tasks and Broke 1 I b…
I Published Every Flaw My Safety Tool Can't Catch. It Made It More Credible, Not Less.
This is a companion to the PlannerCritic series . Article 5 was about what happened when I tried to break my own engine. This one is about the three…
My LLM Critic Flip-Flops on Every Run. That's Fine — Because a Frozenset Decides What's Fatal.
This is a companion to the PlannerCritic series . Article 2 was about a specific critic bug. This one is about the design principle I extracted from…
The Gate That Stayed Silent — When a Blocker Count That Drops Reads as Improvement
In the last article , I argued that the safety contract should move out of the LLM critic and into deterministic gates. The critic can vary. The gat…
I Added a Fourth Model Mid-Run. It Changed What My Field Test Could Prove.
Latest release: v0.2.2 — Aug 29, 2026 I did something I usually try hard not to do in a field test. I changed the design after it had already starte…
The Same Model Debating Itself Was More Self-Critical Than Two Different Models
v0.2.1 RELEASED — Aug 28, 2026. Release notes · Field test report v0.2.1 Key Finding: DeepSeek+GPT (0.246 convergence, no Mistral) performed the sam…
Most AI Second Opinions Are Theater. I Built a System That Actually Fights Back.
The first time I ran two LLMs against the same pull request, 89% of their "debate" was fake. Not wrong. Not low-quality. Fake. The second model was…
How We Built an Adult Height Predictor: The Math, the Science, and the Edge Cases
Ever wonder how those "how tall will my child be?" calculators actually work? They're not magic — but the science behind them is surprisingly intere…