Thinking
Essays and field notes on agentic systems, software delivery, and the reasoning behind the open-source work. A reference library, not a chronological blog.
What leaves with the supervisor? Safe unattended work requires failure to be bounded, visible, recoverable, and unable to quietly become success.
A long-running agent must adapt its plan as it learns, but it must not redefine success. Freeze the end set by a person, and let the system revise its recorded decisions about how to reach it.
For work that runs for hours or passes between agents, an activity log hides the state that matters. Inspectable checkpoints let someone other than the worker find, check, use, and resume each result.
A transcript is not a verdict. Unattended work needs a binding control that consumes evidence at the right boundary and can refuse the next action.