Out-group review
2026-10-02
In an agentic workflow, the reviewer should come from a different model family than the author. The evidence is mixed, so measure your pairing.
Shawn Hartsock
Short series on intelligence, systems, and the ideas that outlast their tools. Published in plain text; the source lives in git.
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A by-line for every model
2026-10-02
This site now credits the models that helped write each page, with their exact identifiers, and keeps a revision history.
Your Human Is an Agent Too
2026-06-18
Managing several AI coding agents, and why the human sharing all of them is the bottleneck.
Series
The Cruel Symmetry
Why power keeps outrunning wisdom — and two honest things to do about it.
A six-part series, standing-start, no background needed: from an old myth about a being who thought it was God, through why no mind can fully audit itself, to a modest engineering idea — give the exact key, not the keyring — and the widening circle of "us." Not a solution to the oldest problem. A way to make it less deadly, and to hand the warning forward.