Taste Infrastructure
Quality encoded as executable systems. Evidence gates, craftsmanship philosophy, design principles from the masters, and the argument that taste is a technical discipline.
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Taste Is a Technical System
Taste decomposes into constraints, evaluation criteria, pattern recognition, and coherence checks. Each component maps to engineering infrastructure.
The Dark Factory Verification Layer
When humans stop reading code, what does the verification layer look like? Mapping the infrastructure required for fully autonomous AI coding.
Every Hook Is a Scar
84 hooks, 15 event types. Each one traces back to a specific failure. Institutional memory in shell scripts.
Quality Is the Only Variable
Time, cost, resources, and effort are not constraints. The question is what's right, not what's efficient. A philosophy for building with AI agents.
Taste Is Infrastructure
As agents generate more of what ships, the quality ceiling is set by how well you encode aesthetic judgment into systems. Taste scales when it...
What I Run Before I Sleep
Every night: 15,000 pages checked, TTFB measured, cache verified, sitemaps crawled. The goodnight routine is where operational discipline lives.
The Evidence Gate
I believe and it should are not evidence. Every completion report needs a file path, test output, or specific code. The discipline of proof in an...
Anthropic Measured What Works. My Hooks Enforce It.
Anthropic analyzed 9,830 conversations. Iterative refinement doubles fluency markers. Polished outputs suppress evaluation. Quality hooks force iteration.
What Actually Breaks When You Run AI Agents Unsupervised
Seven named failure modes from 500+ autonomous agent sessions. Each has a detection signal, a real example, and a concrete fix. The taxonomy HN asked for.
Runtime Constitutions for AI Agents: A Governance Framework
Runtime constitutions enforce AI agent governance where training-phase alignment fails. Competence checks, output gates, and four subsystems keep...
Your Agent Writes Faster Than You Can Read
Five research groups published about the same problem this week: AI agents produce code faster than developers can understand it. The debt is in your head.
Metacognitive AI: Teaching Your Agent Self-Evaluation
Most agent instructions define behavior. The missing layer teaches self-evaluation. False evidence gates, seven named failure modes, and hedging detection.
Nothing is Structural
Negative space is infrastructure, not absence. How emptiness, silence, and whitespace create structure in physics, music, information theory, and design.
Why My AI Agent Has a Quality Philosophy
My Claude Code agent inherited every sloppy human habit at machine speed. I built 3 philosophies, 150+ quality gates, and 95 hooks. Here's what worked.
Compounding Engineering: How My Codebase Accelerates Instead of Decaying
Most codebases slow down as they grow. Mine accelerates. 95 hooks, 44 skills, and 14 configs make each feature cheaper than the last.
Beauty and Brutalism: How I Designed blakecrosley.com at the Intersection
I built my site at the intersection of beauty and brutalism: structural honesty with precise typography on absolute black.
Critical Yet Kind: How I Encoded Feedback Principles into 86 Hooks
Google's Project Aristotle found psychological safety predicts team performance. I encoded the same principles into automated code review hooks.