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The Man Who Thought It Was a Game
On cooperative games, invisible decisions, and why factories were always the wrong metaphor
May 29
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The Harness and the Garden
On Memory, Constraint, and the Habitats That Allow Humans and Djinn to Build Together
May 16
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Russ Miles
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The Shape of Forgotten Things
A tale about AI harnesses, institutional memory, and the exhaustion of beginning again
May 14
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Russ Miles
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On Respecting the Cognitive Gym
The importance of using AI to help you think, even when it hurts
May 10
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Russ Miles
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The Five-Minute Library
On Caches, Clocks, and the Cost of Forgetting
May 6
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Russ Miles
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The Book that Refused to "Launch"
On sovereignty, amplification, and the discipline of designing the habitat in which intelligence—human and otherwise—must learn to behave
May 5
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Russ Miles
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The Theory in the Room
On programming, habitats, and the strange art of keeping understanding alive
May 1
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Russ Miles
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April 2026
All the Roads Not Taken
On Cognitive Debt, Intent Debt, and the Brakes That Let the Car Go Faster
Apr 28
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Russ Miles
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The Trellis and the Hill
On momentum, memory, and the quiet debts we plant in our software engineering gardens
Apr 25
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Russ Miles
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Looping Reflections
On turning agent surprises into harness evolution
Apr 23
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Russ Miles
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The Debts That Grow in Silence
AI accelerates not just code but the fragile ecology of understanding and intent
Apr 22
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Russ Miles
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The Djinn's Determinacy Drift
On the calibration of determinacy in agentic harnesses
Apr 20
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Russ Miles
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