I'm John. I work on AI systems — the practical engineering underneath model behavior: evaluation, tool use, agent loops, the places where probability meets production code.

This is where I write about it. Mostly notes from things that surprised me, occasionally longer pieces when something is worth working out in public.

Recent writing

  1. 01 Runway: capacity planning with calibrated uncertainty
  2. 02 Cairn: ranked attribution, not root cause
  3. 03 Anvil: the deploy gate run backward
  4. 04 Tessera: same engine, different scope, and what Anchor-from-round-1 looks like
  5. 05 DeploySignal: a statistical deploy gate, and the methodology that fell out of building one

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