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practical ai

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Don't take the model's word for it

03/07/2026

I built two small things a few weeks apart, for completely unrelated reasons. Only afterwards did I notice they were the same instinct wearing two costumes - distrust the model's output, just at opposite ends of the same problem.

The Verification Ladder: A Field Guide

19/07/2026

Confidence in AI-assisted work decays at every timescale - within a change, within a session, across sessions, across weeks. The verification technique is set by the clock speed. Here's the ladder I run, examples included.