Writing

Technical notes on building things at the intersection of design, AI, and code.

Review draft, May 7, 2026

Review Draft: Teaching Clarence Not to Fail Quietly

A sharper draft about Clarence, memory, governance, trust, and what fails when an AI system becomes working infrastructure instead of a chat demo.

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May 6, 2026

Designing Decision Boundaries for AI Agents: Clarence as an Agentic UX Case Study

How Clarence defines what an AI collaborator can decide, what it must verify, and where human judgment stays non-negotiable.

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May 4, 2026

Working With Clarence

How I use Clarence for UX critique, creative prototyping, and system workflow without handing off judgment.

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April 11, 2026

Why Clarence Needed a System Wiki

Why important system knowledge could not stay trapped in chat logs, repo docs, and a vault that could point at the wrong place.

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April 11, 2026

Why SensorSynthFM Needed a Wiki Before It Needed More Features

Why SensorSynthFM had a truth problem, not an idea problem, and how a project wiki keeps the thesis-demo work honest.

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March 31, 2026

Implementing Pretext: Solving a 30-Year Browser Problem on a Portfolio Site

How I used Cheng Lou's new 15KB library to replace DOM-based text measurement with Canvas-powered character-level layout, and why it matters for interaction design.

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