Who invited the agent? Oh God.. (Smith will suffice.]
Agentic AI collapses ambiguity without a body. This essay cuts through AI agent hype to ask the ethical question no system scaling agents wants to answer.
Alex Wolf
How Culture-As-Vibes Prices Silence Out of Human Systems
Why culture-as-vibes optimizes for visible contribution, misreads silence, and quietly breaks engagement and feedback systems.
Unmanaged Ambiguity Kills Your Product (And Teams)
Why "clear" tickets still fail. Learn how constraint-based development (OBC) sharpens requirements, aligns teams, and leads to quieter delivery.
When Conflict Breaks Teams
Conflict isn’t a people problem. It’s a pressure signal. A systems-level look at how teams break under load—and what gets erased when it happens.
Becoming an Observer in Human Systems
Why effective post-mortems and incident management fail under pressure—and how regulation, not authority or process, restores coherence under load by slowing time, holding silence, and making language a deliberate intervention.
AI Did Not Take Your Agency. You Handed It Over]
An essay on generative AI and LLMs that reframes language as action—exploring agency, precision, and jurisdiction in socio-technical systems under load.
Your Team Is a Distributed System
Model your team as a distributed system.
Learn why culture is structure—not vibes—through message passing, locality, loss, asynchrony, and non-linearity under load.
SRE for Human Systems Under Load
systemic.engineering: an embodied site reliability engineering discipline for human systems, focused on coherence under load, regulation, and language as infrastructure.
Fear, Language, Coherence, Mistakes, and Why You’re Still Reading This (Please Don’t]
A piece about fear, language being load-bearing, odd mistakes, coherence, and stopping before you’re ahead.
No tips. No lessons. Probably not what you’re looking for.
Title-based Authority Fails Under Load
Why title-based authority fails during incidents. Learn how regulation enables psychological safety, effective escalation, and better post-mortems under load.