All Posts (68)
2026
Governance on AI: Mumble incoherently and carry a big stick
A flurry of bills, drafts, and executive orders on AI have dropped across the US and EU. Take a closer look: all this activity is effectively an abdication of governance rather than any constructive scaffolding that could steer AI development and deployment. What we have instead is the heavy hammer of Executive Privilege with limited due process to stop whatever is deemed "unsafe". Here are five examples.
7 min
You Don't Have a Relationship with Your LLM. You Have Five.
9 min
The Architecture Orphaning Problem with AI Agents
6 min
The Guardrail Erosion Problem with AI Agents
9 min
AI vs. Open Source, Part 3: The Constant Eyes
7 min
AI vs. Open Source, Part 2: The Hollow Commons
5 min
AI vs. Open Source, Part 1: The Empty Grant
5 min
SECURE Data Act: The dilution in pseudonymization
7 min
Subsidiarity is not Hayek
3 min
Deliverance from Directive Governance
6 min
The Suggestible Actor: A New Model for AI-Assisted Software Development
10 min
Tech Companies and Directive Governance: A Situationship
7 min
Cargo Cult Governance
9 min
2025
The grand flattening: AI Slop is just the next step
8 min
Defense in Depth vs Locality of Behavior
2 min
When Backward Compatibility Can Rescue a Leaky Abstraction
6 min
Const Refs vs. Raw Pointers: Fixing Shared Pointer Reads
3 min
Changing your Jekyll theme without losing your mind (or your content!)
7 min
Cyclomatic Complexity: How Low Can You Go?
3 min
TDD for Bug Fixes
3 min
Let Sleeping Engineers Lie: Why Your Alerts Should Match Your SEVs
2 min
2022
The Law of Demeter and unit tests
4 min
'Privatize' your classes for better unit testing
3 min
Tests should be isolated from each other; not coupled
7 min
In unit tests, I favor Detroit over London
5 min
Defining unit tests: two schools of thought
3 min
Primary attributes of unit test suites and their tradeoffs
6 min
The big WHY about unit tests
4 min
Unit test the brains and not the nerves
3 min
Mocks, Stubs, and how to use them
6 min
DRY unit tests are bad... mkay
9 min
Do not index on test coverage metrics
4 min
Beware of using patch.object to test your Python code
2 min
When I first realized my privilege
4 min
