Agentic Organizations Through Control Theory and Cybernetics
A crosswalk between habitats, harnesses, handoffs, and the language of governed systems
Essays
Published essays, working notes, and unfinished arguments on systems engineering, AI, organizations, and epistemics.
Work in Progress
Unfinished by designPublic snapshots of essays still being developed. Their arguments, structure, and wording may change.
Designing the Agent's Habitat
A framework for roles, harnesses, authority, and handoffs in agentic organizations
Deterministically Wrong
What deterministic software can prove, what tests cannot see, and why assurance is ultimately a domain decision
Organizations Are Made of Handoffs
On humans, software, and the new material entering institutional systems
Some Systems Are Slow Because Trust Is Slow
On why accelerating knowledge work does not remove the institutional work required to make decisions trustworthy
A Unified Theory of Epistemic Engineering
A four-dimensional theory of AI system difficulty, with practical machinery for designing and diagnosing production systems
Systems Engineering
SystemsBuilding Is Cheap. Knowing What to Build Isn’t
Reflections on building tools at the boundary of math, software, and understanding
Epistemics
EpistemicsThe Shadow of Compression
On symbolic and statistical learning as two directions toward the same fixed point
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