Architecture

One Shot at Understanding

The model gets one shot at understanding the question. The person gets unlimited cheap corrections. Almost every other property of the design falls out of that asymmetry.

8 Sept 2026 4 min architecture, ai

Architecture

Production Is Never a Safe State

We didn't try to predict every bad request. We made the API surface explicit, then made the application enforce its own definition of what is allowed to exist.

17 Aug 2026 6 min architecture, observability

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