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Bounded Autonomy: Retry, Escalate, Never Go Silent
Every stage of an automated pipeline needs three outcomes, not two. Why automation's usual failure mode is doing nothing unnoticed, and how to design it out.
PyGeoHash v3.3.2: Reliability at the Edges
PyGeoHash v3.3.2 continues the reliability run with antimeridian fixes and stricter validation, plus native ARM64 wheels and smoke-tested artifacts.
What a Month of Portfolio-Wide Engineering Looks Like
651 merged pull requests across 75 repositories in a month, two human gates, and what changes when the unit of maintenance stops being the repo.
Distilling Skills From a Knowledge Base You Build While You Work
How to combine Swamp and the Open Knowledge Format: grow an OKF knowledge base across your projects as agents work, then distill reusable skills from it.
PyGeoHash v3.3.1: A Round of Sharp-Edge Fixes
PyGeoHash v3.3.1 is a bugfix release that closes a buffer overrun, rejects bad coordinates, fixes distance and bounding box edge cases, and ships py.typed.
Swamp Club: Deterministic Automation for AI Agents
Swamp is an automation framework built to be operated by AI agents rather than by people writing pipelines. What it is, and how I run my autopilot on it.
Google's Open Knowledge Format
Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format is a tiny markdown spec for feeding curated context to AI agents. What it is, and how I've been using it.
AI Agents Will Break Our Markets (Unless We Fix Them First)
A new paper explores what happens when autonomous AI agents participate in economic systems built for humans. Spoiler: lots of problems.