NOTES
Engineering notes and learnings, written down while they were still warm. Closer to lab notes than blog posts.
The auditor should not hold the pen
Aug 26, 2026The Doubt stage gave its sub-agent full write access so it could fix what it found. That is a conflict of interest: the cheapest repair for a failing check is always to change the check.
agentsverificationprocessThe bug class that compiles: work built on a premise that moved
Aug 26, 2026Four failures in one week that every gate passed. None were bugs in the usual sense - each was correct code resting on an assumption that had quietly stopped being true.
agentsverificationprocessThree numbers that changed a design
Aug 26, 2026A contribution grid looked fine and was wrong three ways. Each was invisible until measured, and two of the fixes were the opposite of the obvious one.
performancedesignmeasurementBuilding zckr.dev: content as data, everything else follows
Aug 22, 2026The architectural bets behind this site — flat JSON validated by zod, static everything, and client JavaScript kept to a fixed roster of deliberate islands.
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The cheap stream: two-minute findings that didn't warrant a full note but were too good to lose.