#system-design

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Provenance Wins: Why AI Content Needs a Retrieval Path, Not Just a Watermark

The industry keeps treating synthetic media like a detection problem. That frame is too small. The real engineering problem is provenance routing: how truth survives creation, transformation, and retrieval.

May 27, 20267m read

Engineering

Twenty-Four Agents. Nine Rules. Zero LLM Routing.

Most agentic systems let the model decide where a message goes. That's exactly where control collapses. I built nine deterministic routing rules instead — and shipped 430 tests to prove they work.

April 7, 20267m read

Engineering

The Kill Switch Doesn't Save You. The Drill Does.

Every autonomous system needs a kill switch. Almost no one actually runs the drill. I did — and found two production bugs hiding inside tests that passed.

April 2, 20267m read