Articles¶
Published articles from The Infrastructure Mindset. Each article links to its full text and the research that supports it.
How to Read This¶
Articles are the published product of research. Each article page contains the full text, metadata, and links to the research topics and specific claims that back it. Not every article has formal research — opinion pieces, historical essays, and early articles predate the research standard.
For the evidence behind an article, follow the research links to the Research section.
Published¶
A0019 — Prompt Engineering Is Not. Engineering, That Is.
Published: ~2026-03-26 · Tags: technology, ai
I went looking for engineering. I found creative writing advice with a technical veneer.
R0020 — Prompt Engineering Gaps
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R0021 — Engineering Definitions and Standards
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R0023 — Counterproductive Advice and Prompt Lifecycle
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R0024 — Sycophancy, Addiction, and Vendor Incentives
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R0027 — Multilingual Prompt Engineering Challenges
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R0028 — Blind Claim Verification
Active · 33 claims
A0012 — The Truth is Out There. But How Do You Find It? (Part 1)
Tags: methodology
A unified research methodology derived from nine intelligence and scientific frameworks. The what and the why.
R0052 — Article Claim Verification
Active · 14 claims
R0049 — Published AI Research Methodology Prompts
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R0050 — Journalism and Other Truth-Seeking Disciplines
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R0051 — Fact-Checking Methodology Gap Analysis
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A0013 — The Truth is Out There. Now Go Find It. (Part 2)
Tags: methodology
Translating a unified research methodology into a machine-executable prompt. The how — and how to get it.
R0053 — Article Claim Verification
Active · 7 claims
R0049 — Published AI Research Methodology Prompts
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A0006 — Building on Fire: Engineering Trust in AI Systems
Published: ~2026-03-12 · Tags: technology, ai
This is the part of the trilogy where the heroes are supposed to win.
A0007 — AI Made Everyone Faster. But Faster Is Not Necessarily Better.
Published: ~2026-03-11 · Tags: technology, ai
You just gave everyone in the building a chainsaw. Including the people who were already a danger with scissors.
A0010 — Seven Rounds With a Confident Liar
Published: ~2026-03-11 · Tags: technology, ai
I was mid-sentence in a conversation with Claude Code when shift+enter stopped inserting newlines and started submitting my prompt instead.
A0005 — The Trust Chasm: When AI Delivers False Confidence
Published: ~2026-03-10 · Tags: technology, ai
We are building an increasing dependence on systems we are simultaneously losing the ability to verify.
A0008 — The Agent That Didn't Know Itself
Published: ~2026-03-03 · Tags: technology, ai
I needed my AI coding agent to behave consistently. Same commit message format every time. Same branching workflow. Same validation steps.
A0011 — The Brilliant Developer, Unreliable Operator
Published: ~2026-03-03 · Tags: technology, ai, devops
I gave the AI agent one simple instruction: when something fails, stop what you're doing and come talk to me.
A0016 — Speed Has Numbers. Trust Has Error Bars.
Published: ~2026-03-03 · Tags: technology, ai, devops
One developer, working alone on a greenfield project, building a polyglot API ecosystem across eight repositories over forty-eight days.
A0009 — Building pymqrest: A Case Study in AI-Assisted Development
Published: ~2026-02-10 · Tags: technology, ai
I built pymqrest almost entirely with AI — Claude and Codex — and I wrote virtually none of the code by hand.
A0004 — Global Infrastructure Diversity Trends
Published: ~2026-02-03 · Tags: technology
There is a reality here that infrastructure leaders cannot ignore.
A0002 — Why Overthinking Is a Requirement
Published: ~2026-02-01 · Tags: history
"Overthink by default" is not a personality quirk. It is a requirement.
A0001 — From Skeptic to Convert
Published: ~2026-01-29 · Tags: technology
In three months, I went from a hardcore anti-AI skeptic to someone who has essentially decided I won't be wasting my time writing code anymore.