Journal
Written from inside the build.
What serious AI work actually requires, what we have learned building it, and where the conventional wisdom is wrong.
All writing
August 2026
Planned
Planned
The workflow is a decision system
Why a process map is not an automation spec, and what has to be true before a step can be trusted to run without a person watching it.
Inference independence
The model is a replaceable cognitive resource, not the architecture. Building so that the next provider is a configuration change rather than a rewrite.
When the answer is not AI
What it costs to tell a client that conventional software is the correct recommendation, and why the incentive structure has to make that survivable.