Regulation-as-a-Service: When Systems Become Extractive
Asymmetric regulation isn't a bug—it's a feature in some relationships. Extraction is when the SLA was never negotiated and shadow on-call is silently load-bearing. How to detect the pattern?
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Tech Debt Isn't Bad Code—It's Encoded Legacy Patterns
Tech debt is legacy patterns reproducing. In your code. Your process. Your team. Why code reviews keep finding the same problems—and better questions to ask.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Fragmentation: Tech Debt Is a Coherence Problem
Tech debt isn’t bad code — it’s fragmented reality encoded into software. Learn why coherence, not cleanliness, determines system stability under load.