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Articles on artificial intelligence — trust, reliability, development practices, and the gap between what AI can produce and what we can verify.
A0019 — Prompt Engineering Is Not. Engineering, That Is.
Published: ~2026-03-26
I went looking for engineering. I found creative writing advice with a technical veneer. 31 references, every claim independently verified.
A0006 — Building on Fire: Engineering Trust in AI Systems
Published: ~2026-03-12
This is the part of the trilogy where the heroes are supposed to win.
R0001 — AI Trust, Reliability, and the Widening Gap
Pending
A0007 — AI Made Everyone Faster. But Faster Is Not Necessarily Better.
Published: ~2026-03-11
You just gave everyone in the building a chainsaw. Including the people who were already a danger with scissors.
R0001 — AI Trust, Reliability, and the Widening Gap
Pending
A0010 — Seven Rounds With a Confident Liar
Published: ~2026-03-11
I was mid-sentence in a conversation with Claude Code when shift+enter stopped inserting newlines and started submitting my prompt instead.
R0001 — AI Trust, Reliability, and the Widening Gap
Pending
A0005 — The Trust Chasm: When AI Delivers False Confidence
Published: ~2026-03-10
We are building an increasing dependence on systems we are simultaneously losing the ability to verify.
R0001 — AI Trust, Reliability, and the Widening Gap
Pending
A0008 — The Agent That Didn't Know Itself
Published: ~2026-03-03 · Research: Pending
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
I gave the AI agent one simple instruction: when something fails, stop what you're doing and come talk to me.
R0003 — AI as Development Tool: Polyglot Porting and Library Construction
Pending
A0016 — Speed Has Numbers. Trust Has Error Bars.
Published: ~2026-03-03
I should be upfront about what this is and what it isn't. This is one developer, working alone on a greenfield project, building a polyglot API ecosystem across eight repositories over forty-eight days.
R0003 — AI as Development Tool: Polyglot Porting and Library Construction
Pending
A0009 — Building pymqrest: A Case Study in AI-Assisted Development
Published: ~2026-02-10
I just published pymqrest, a Python wrapper for the IBM MQ administrative REST API. I built it almost entirely with AI — Claude and Codex — and I wrote virtually none of the code by hand.
R0003 — AI as Development Tool: Polyglot Porting and Library Construction
Pending