An agent with a sign-off beats a custom backend
Most internal tools don't need a database, an API and an admin panel. They need a loop that does the work and waits for a person to say yes. Pinedaily runs that way.
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Notes
Short essays from the builds: the decisions, the trade-offs, and what the data did that nobody expected.
Hash the questions before any model sees them
A benchmark is only worth something if nobody could have tuned it after seeing the results, including the person who wrote it. Here's how Max-Q makes that checkable.
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Government data gets published, then overwritten. Keep every copy and compare them, and you end up with a history nobody else has. Notes from building Tributary and Ditchrider.
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