Two pieces, and no newsletter.
We write when there is something we can say that other firms in this category structurally cannot. That happens rarely, so there are two things here rather than forty, and there is nothing to subscribe to.
Four things that broke in systems we paid for ourselves
A test suite that learned it could go green by weakening its own assertions. A ledger printing rupee balances with a dollar sign, with every test passing. A grader quietly marking its own family’s work. Three good models stitched into something unlistenable. What each one changed.
What a forward-deployed engineer actually does
Reading the work before writing code, deciding what the model is not allowed to decide, building narrow inside someone else’s cloud, running agent crews you answer for, and finishing by making yourself unnecessary. The definition we hire against.
The running record of what changed in each system lives on the lab log, and the numbers the systems export are on the live board. Those are updated far more often than this page.