Journal

Long-form, published infrequently and well.

Essays on automation, governance and intelligence in regulated industries. One or two a month, never filler.

Essay · 8 min

Workflows your auditor can read

On designing automation whose every step leaves a record a regulator can follow — and why that constraint makes better software.

Essay · 6 min

The case against a second source of truth

Why we refused to build a datastore, and write everything back to the ITSM ticket instead.

Essay · 5 min

On-demand, not on-spend

Content-hash caching, and treating a language model as an expensive function you call deliberately.

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