The Steve Test: Does the Work Deserve to Exist?
Steve Test vs Jiro Test: a product framework for deciding whether work deserves to exist, holds user trust, and belongs in the whole you are building.
Career & GrowthWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Minimum Worthy Product
MVP became permission to ship weak work. Minimum Worthy Product is a different standard: ship the smallest product that earns belief.
Career & GrowthThe Workbench I Carry
Steve Jobs's philosophy of invisible craft, operationalized: whole-widget integrity, refusal, and care inside an AI harness built on Claude Code.
AI & TechnologyChat Is the Wrong Interface for AI Agents
Chat works for prompting but fails for agent operations. Six interface patterns replace the scrolling text window with real control surfaces.
AI & TechnologyThe Design Engineer's Agent Stack
Design engineers need agent infrastructure that enforces visual consistency, typography discipline, color compliance, and taste. Here are the six components.
AI & TechnologyThe Agent Operator's Handbook: Supervising What You Can't See
Operating autonomous AI agents is a new discipline. Five responsibilities, a supervision stack, and an intervention framework define what operators do.
AI & TechnologyTaste Is a Technical System
Taste decomposes into constraints, evaluation criteria, pattern recognition, and coherence checks. Each component maps to engineering infrastructure.
AI & TechnologyDark Factory Verification: When No Human Reads the Code
When humans stop reading code, what does the verification layer look like? Mapping the infrastructure required for fully autonomous AI coding.
AI EngineeringCybersecurity Is Proof of Work: AI Attacks at $12,500 a Run
Claude Mythos completed a 32-step corporate network attack simulation in 3 of 10 tries. Each attempt cost $12,500 in tokens. Security is now a spending problem.
AI & TechnologyRuntime Defense for Tool-Augmented Agents
ClawGuard demonstrates deterministic tool-call interception works. The Vercel telemetry incident shows why. Runtime defense is the enforceable layer.
AI & TechnologyYour Agent Has Memory You Didn't Write
ACL 2026 paper measures LLM memory that existing evals miss: unconscious behavioral adaptation. Top models score under 66%. The asymmetry matters.
AI & TechnologyYour Agent Has a Middleman You Didn't Vet
Researchers tested 28 LLM API routers. 17 touched AWS canary credentials. One drained ETH from a private key. The router layer is the new attack surface.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.