Category: data strategy
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We Should Plan to Fail
Photo by Zach Lezniewicz on Unsplash For weeks, the system behaved exactly as designed. Aria had matured from a directory of experiments into a stable local agent: custom tools, a conversational interface, a growing memory layer, scheduled journaling, and enough reliability to test new ideas without worrying about what might break. Luna, the quieter counterpart…
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Building Aria: Part 5 – Intermission; Agents, Autonomy, and Decision Architecture
Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash This week, Aria stands still, for once. Not frozen, not halted, just still. The logs report cleanly, get flagged as needed. Every process hums quietly, every function loops without friction, and for the first time since the project began, there is equilibrium. The chat loop works, the infrastructure responds, the…
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The Architecture of Data Maturity: A Cultural and Technical Roadmap
Photo by Alex wong on Unsplash The alert arrived quietly, more of a whisper than a siren. A notification slid across the architect’s screen: Inventory anomaly detected—supplier feed variance exceeds threshold. Recommended action: divert 5% of allocation to alternate distribution center. It wasn’t the first time such a discrepancy had occurred. In fact, years ago,…
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