Insights

Writing on architecture, AI execution systems, and dependable delivery.

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Why Abracapocus Beats /goals for Real Agentic Coding

Why bounded tasks, fresh context, evidence-backed handoff, and cost-aware routing make Abracapocus better suited than single-goal loops for real agentic coding.

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Governed Async Execution in Abracapocus

How Abracapocus runs concurrent AI coding work under enforced safety constraints with durable evidence attached to every task.

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Tiered Retry Is a Failure Economy

Why blind retries waste model spend, and how diagnosis, fresh context, targeted repair, and evidence-based escalation make agentic coding cheaper and more reliable.

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The Economics of Abracapocus

Why governed execution will matter as AI execution costs become explicit and inference stops being treated as free.

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Abracapocus Building Abracapocus

Abracapocus is being developed through the same governed autonomous execution model it proposes for production software systems.

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Beyond the Dark Software Factory

Dan Shapiro’s Five Levels describe the path toward the dark software factory. Abracapocus points toward the governed software factory beyond it.

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From the Karpathy Loop to Governed Autonomous Development

AI coding is moving from conversational iteration to governed execution through contracts, verification, evidence, and bounded autonomous delivery systems.

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Dependable AI-Assisted Development Series

External article series from foxmike.github.io.

AI-Assisted Development Scales Through Verification, Not Generation Read external article → The Unreliable Narrator Problem in AI-Assisted Development Read external article → Stage Separation: Why Software Construction Needs a Supervisor Pattern Read external article → Task Contracts as the Unit of Work in AI-Assisted Development Read external article → Multi-Backend Routing Is Insurance Against Model Risk Read external article → Tiered Retry Is a Failure Economy Read external article → Minimal Blast Radius Is What Makes AI Automation Tolerable Read external article → Curated Task Execution Beats Dynamic Planning in Real Work Read external article → Anti-Patterns in AI-Assisted Development Read external article → State, Resumability, and Why Chat Memory Is the Wrong Primitive Read external article →

External Notes

Older external notes on applied AI and data workflows.

CNN for Image Classification

Why it matters: demonstrates how robust image pipelines can classify operational inputs consistently and support faster downstream decisions.

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Extracting Structured Data from Images with GPT-4 Vision + Instructor

Why it matters: shows a practical method for converting visual documents into structured, machine-usable data with controlled output formats.

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Sharing Data with Large Language Models

Why it matters: explains how to share business data with language models while preserving context, controls, and decision quality.

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