> Originally published on Vibe Agent Makinghttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/codicology-for-compiled-code/. Triangulating authorship when git blame lies — what medieval manuscript authentication teaches software forensics about the evidence nobody de...

In a 2026 vendor survey of 750 IT leaders, 21.1% said they could not account for shadow AI agents. A better dashboard will not fix it: a 1978 stroke study shows why, and eleven of my own checks proved it. In one 2026 vendor survey of 750 IT leaders,...

New podcast creation is flooding and collapsing at the same time. Both are true, because podcasting is no longer one thing, and almost every statistic you will read silently sums the two populations together. On April 15, 2026, the industry newslet...

When recorded music went free, its value did not vanish. It moved to the seat in the room, and rushed to a handful of winners. Between 1996 and 2003, the average concert ticket for a rock or pop act nearly doubled. The economists Maria Connolly an...

The forger did not defeat the expert. He fulfilled him. In 1892, the director of the Mauritshuis examined a canvas called Diana and her Nymphs and decided it was probably not by Johannes Vermeer of Delft. Abraham Bredius was the most formidable Ve...

Engineers are told to study Robodebt as a human-in-the-loop failure. That reading is correct and it stops one layer short. The Royal Commission's own record shows the humans were not lost in an automation project: removing them was the business case....

> Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-lie-outlives-the-liar/. They deleted the deceiver from the conversation. The false belief stayed, carried by agents that never lied. In August 2026, nine researchers ...

In the five school-season months of March through July 2024, English Wikipedia's article on osmosis was read about 154,000 times by humans. In the same five months of 2026, it was read about 56,000 times. Two years, and nearly two-thirds of its reade...

Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-forgetting-curve-everyone-cites-is-ebbinghaus-s-own-column-relabeled-the-90-is-not-in-it/. The "half in an hour, 70% in a day" figures that training blogs attribute to E...

> Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/noita-s-eye-messages-in-one-evening-seven-of-the-nine-known-rules-and-the-conclusion-i-had-to-take-back/. One script, one evening, and the Noita solvers' own nine conditio...

> Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/the-lie-outlives-the-liar/. They deleted the deceiver from the conversation. The false belief stayed, carried by agents that never lied. In August 2026, nine researchers ...

Every Git tutorial teaches three states. Modified, staged, committed: the working directory, the staging area, the repository. It is canonical, it is in the official book, and for the question that decides whether your credentials end up in permane...

Originally published on Vibe Agent Makinghttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/persister-cells/. In 1944, the physician Joseph Bigger hit a Staphylococcus culture with penicillin and watched almost all of it die. A tiny remnant survived, which is unremar...

Five statistics about AI failure are doing heavy rotation this year. You have probably met all of them. Forty-two percent of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from seventeen percent the year before. Ninety-five percent of g...

A signal has three states and most code stores two. When “cannot measure” is written with the same value as “fine,” the alarm branch becomes unreachable in exactly the situation the alarm exists for. On 7 December 2021, the operations teams inside...

What eyewitness-ID reform teaches AI evals. A 1985 lineup change doubled a justice-system metric without making one witness better at telling guilty from innocent, and a hundred-year-old branch of statistics says exactly why. In 1985, two psycholog...

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...

Every generation of developers inherits the same distribution problem: how do you get the right message to the right person? The history of marketing is a 5,000-year optimization problem — and we're about to hit a discontinuity. The Targeting Proble...

Every generation of developers inherits the same distribution problem: how do you get the right message to the right person? The history of marketing is a 5,000-year optimization problem — and we're about to hit a discontinuity. The Targeting Proble...