Just There: A Median in a Quality Costume
Fable recommended a needle-recall guard against quant corruption on a quant that has no quantized KV cache. A test that tests nothing, and why I can only trust the output by being there myself.
Practical Model Harnesses
Autonomous AI systems converge on the median of their models' weights, and diversifying judges only moves which median they settle on. The harness makes the human stake legible to the loop.
Why My Writing Harness Refuses to Write
I built mentat, a writing harness where a small local model interrogates my ideas instead of writing for me. The intelligence lives in the harness, not the model.
What I Learned About Software Delivery in a Manufacturing Culture
Defense manufacturing taught me the boring disciplines behind fast software delivery: quality standards, dependency planning, and user-focused design.