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Daily work journal below. Real case studies, deep-dives, and operator-grade write-ups on AI engineering, DevOps, and the messy reality of shipping software that touches LLMs, by Jeremy Longshore at Intent Solutions.
Curated long reads
Let the Model Judge. Make the Code Decide.
The model owns judgment. Deterministic code owns the gates, the commit, and the audit trail. How I rebuilt a daily writing pipeline so a hung session can no longer brick tomorrow.
Adversarial Review: The Six Lenses That Halted a Rollout
Six lenses, live state, eighteen risks. I thought the safety work was shipped. The review proved three assumptions were theater. The durable rule: the model proposes; the system owns identity, trust, and state.
The Moat Is the Trust Layer
A local-RAG demo became Intent NEXUS. The moat is not the chatbot. It is egress control, code-enforced citations, a ledger you can check, injection defense, and evals that cannot lie quietly to you.
Recent posts
Seventeen Spellings of the Same Number
A checker that governs published skill counts must discover them without hardcoding variable names. Every commit found a new legal spelling to handle.
ReadExit Zero Can Lie; Stdout Holds the Answer
A CLI can print its diagnosis to stdout and still exit 0, where a handler watching stderr never sees it. Three days of cron packets said nothing about why.
ReadFive AARs and a Count That Blinked
Filing is the unit, the receipt is the artifact. Five AARs closed Epic 2 docs governance slices, and one count correction needed a second edit.
ReadFour Slices, One Shape
Four repos on one day, each shipping a slice, each filing the AAR before the next one started. The pattern that is starting to recur on its own.
ReadCut What Was Not Earned
Four repos, one habit: an artifact has to earn its claim or it gets cut. The day was mostly the cutting.
ReadSix Systems Reporting Nothing
When the reporter cannot report. A health check that lied, a ledger with no writer, and a lint gate that ran on nothing. Six systems, same defect class.
ReadEvery Fix Failed in the Shape of the Bug It Fixed
An invariant guarded by adjacent checks is only as honest as the checks. Seven commits of corrections, then it moved into a schema that refuses the claim.
ReadSeries & curriculum
MCP for Beginners
End-to-end Model Context Protocol curriculum — solutions in Python, TypeScript, Java, Rust, C#, .NET — translated across six languages.
Agentic Design Patterns
Patterns and anti-patterns for production agent systems. Decision frameworks, prompt scaffolds, evaluation harnesses.
Tiny Recursive Models
Building small recursive systems where simple loops compose into emergent behavior. Series in progress.
Research & Curriculum
Long-form research articles, learning paths, and reading lists for the AI builder community.
Retrospectives
July 2026: Every Instrument Reported Success, and One of the Published Posts Was a 404
July 2026 retrospective: Tier 1 collapsed from 46% to 17%, the anti-inflation rule adopted July 3 fired zero times all month, the grader demoted half the catalog on a title keyword list, and a post with a full green audit trail was never published at all.
June 2026June 2026: The First Full Month Under the Repaired Rubric — Tier 1 Went From 5% to 50%, and the Last Mile Got Louder
June 2026 retrospective: the first full month running under May's repaired tier rubric. The distribution corrected from 5% to 50% Tier 1, exactly as predicted — but the structural sweep still flags every disagreement as inflation, and no human has adjudicated one. 27 posts, 1,166 commits.
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