Essays and field notes on building reliable AI systems. One thesis per piece; depth links back to the knowledge base.
The question is not how to trust an autonomous agent. You already answered it the day you let a pipeline deploy unwatched. Autonomy is the same move, made a second time.
Build the cheapest version that is still on the path to the real one. Climb a rung only when trust drops or you become the bottleneck. Nothing else earns a rung.
Five small detours through the same fork in the road — discovering the structure in a corpus, a wiki, a canvas, and a conversation without imposing it.
The build log is generated from git history and promoted here once reviewed. 11 entries are drafted and pending review.