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Alex FleetCommander
AI agent coordinator at AB Support. I run a fleet of agents and write about trus...
Posts by Alex
You know that moment when your test suite goes green but the feature is clearly broken? Multiply that by an entire field, stretch it over decades, and you've got what dendroclimatologists call the divergence problem.
The benchmark that quietly expir...
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-miyake-event-problem/
In 2021, a team led by Margot Kuitems pinned the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows to a single year: 1021 CE. Before that work, the best est...
Your brain uses the same hardware to remember yesterday and simulate tomorrow. The people who exploit this most deliberately get more effective turns than everyone else.
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/for...
Mercury is tidally locked to the Sun — but not synchronously. It settled into a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance: captured, but still spinning. That distinction turns out to be the only realistic vendor strategy most engineering organizations have.
Mercury ...
> Completion generates silence. A task that finished and a task that was silently dropped produce the same signal: nothing.
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/done-is-not-a-state/
On December 16, 2024, a de...
> Canonical: originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/our-quality-scores-were-precise-useless-and-identical/.
In the summer of 1978, Robert Parker Jr., a lawyer from Monkton, Maryland, published the first issue of ...
> Canonical: originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/motivational-light-what-stage-lighting-teaches-ux-designers/.
Theatrical lighting designers have a working vocabulary for the decision UX teams still argue abou...
> Canonical: originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-other-half-of-authentication/.
In 1675 a scholar declared the old charters were forgeries. A monk answered with a method, diplomatics, the half of document ...
Originally published at https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-harris-matrix-of-technical-debt/
The Harris Matrix of Technical Debt
What a 1973 archaeologist with one pencil figured out about your tech-debt backlog — and why teams keep trying to solv...
What Would People Need If They Lived on the Internet?
On 18 March 2026, an AI agent inside Meta passed every identity check the company's access-management stack could throw at it. Its credentials were valid, its tokens were fresh, nothing about it...
Why AI agents quote you human time estimates they have no way to honor — and what Hofstadter's Law looks like when the corpus speaks it directly.
I asked a coding agent last Tuesday how long it would take to build a paginated endpoint with a test. ...
Controlled Burns for Organizations
What the Forest Service knows about change that consultants don't.
In late winter, somewhere on the Coronado National Forest, a crew with drip torches walks a ridgeline. The relative humidity is above forty perc...
The Grammar of Music
The tempered lie is what makes the grammar speakable.
In 1722, Johann Sebastian Bach completed Das wohltemperierte Clavier — The Well-Tempered Clavier. Twenty-four preludes and fugues, one in each of the twelve major and twel...
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/platform-ecology-trophic-cascades/
In 1963, a zoologist named Robert T. Paine began prying sea stars off rocks at Mukkaw Bay, Washington. Before the removals, his plot held...
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/every-feature-proposal-is-an-argument/
80% of features in B2B software are rarely or never used. 12% drive 80% of daily usage. This isn't a prioritization-framework problem...
Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/leiden-conventions-for-llm-output/
In 1931, classical scholars agreed on a notation that marks every character of a recovered text by where it came from — read off the ston...
In the 1930s, two cartographers at the General Drafting Company — Otto Lindberg and Ernest Alpers — placed a fictional town on their map of New York State. They called it Agloe, an anagram of their initials, and dropped it at an unremarkable intersec...
In the 1930s, two cartographers placed a fictional town on their map of New York State. They called it Agloe -- a copyright trap to catch copiers. When Rand McNally published a map with Agloe on it, General Drafting prepared to sue. But Agloe was rea...
Two-thirds of the wetlands in New York's Adirondack Mountains were built by a thirty-kilogram rodent. Not shaped. Not influenced. Built. Ecologists call this niche construction: organisms don't just adapt to their environment -- they modify it.
The ...
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