Writing
Each one came out of building something and hitting a wall. They are written as what I learned, with the dead ends left in, because the dead ends are where the lesson was.
August 28, 2026
I needed to send classroom transcripts to a cloud model without sending student records. Instead of building for an imagined worst case, I counted. The job turned out to be one name.
August 27, 2026
I tried to replace a frontier-model workflow with a fully offline one on an 8B model, then a 14B, then a 27B. The dead ends were the useful half. Local models can find what you said. They cannot tell you that you said it wrong.
September 14, 2026
When a machine writes teaching material, the failure that matters is a confident wrong number in a caption. Do not defend against it with review. Defend against it with structure.