Tag: engineering culture
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The Fractal Delusion: Why Motion Isn’t Proof
From the road, it looks like progress. A project site at full stride has a particular kind of confidence to it. Steel ribs climb into the sky. Concrete trucks arrive on schedule. Cranes swing slow, deliberate arcs, placing beams where they belong as if the building is assembling itself. You can stand at the fence…
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Trust Is Infrastructure
Photo by Joseph Corl on Unsplash In the decades following the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, Americans learned a bitter lesson about trust: the news wasn’t just a carrier of facts anymore. It was a platform with incentives. What once felt like shared information slowly became something else: an arena where attention was the product,…
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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…
Abstract Foundations 