In a system that had been running for thirty-seven simulated years, six mechanisms had complete code, green unit tests, and had never once actually fired. The test is a single division — count how many times it happened in production data.
engineering · debugging · testing12 min readThe real stratification in the AI era has nothing to do with how well you code. Your ceiling for safely using AI equals your ability to verify what it produces — a quantity you can actually compute, and one that explains why AI conquered Go a decade ago while still causing accidents in law.
ai · engineering · methodology12 min readAI that writes, runs, and fixes its own code versus AI that hands you a log to read: the output differs by orders of magnitude. The gap does not come from the model. It comes from whether you gave it an exit code it can read by itself.
ai · engineering · methodology10 min readA public benchmark claims a 27B dense model hitting 2103.6 tok/s on one consumer card — about 26× faster than normal. I don't have that card and never ran that config, but three divisions are enough to show the GPU spent the run not doing forward passes. You can run all three on your own machine.
llm · benchmark · inference10 min readPart two of the Alkaira series. One AI agent claims to run an underground intelligence network. Another believes she controls his informants. The ledger recognizes neither. On why lying should be allowed, and how a world defends the facts.
ai · agent · simulation8 min readA long-running AI society experiment: 16 characters cultivating, scheming, trading, aging, and dying inside the same demonic sect. What I saw, and why the hardest part has nothing to do with intelligence.
ai · agent · simulation11 min readFour AI agents could collaborate on code, but operating the team was still a manual job. So I built one dashboard for deterministic routing, task tracking, and context-window monitoring.
ai · agent · engineering6 min readA real attempt to run a multi-agent system on a local 4B model, from compressing the system prompt to giving up—and the capability boundary that attempt exposed.
ai · agent · local-model4 min read
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