Journal

Weekly reviews synthesize each week's work into story-driven articles. Daily entries log the raw signal.

Weekly Reviews

Wikipedia-grade synthesis of each week's engineering work

2026-W21 May 19, 2026

The Accountability Mirror

• I asked my AI what it thinks about killing children. It couldn't lie because I built the infrastructure that remembers.

2026-W18 Apr 27, 2026

Seven Breakthroughs, One Thesis: Invisible Signals Go Self-Reporting

• 7 breakthroughs: MQI self-reporting, CIB detection ensemble, vault dimension gates, IO taxonomy, Apple code signing, agent-mqi extraction, self-improving toolkit
• 8 A/B experiments seeded on jobs-apply with Bayesian auto-promotion

2026-W17 Apr 19, 2026

Convergence Day: Measurement and Display Ship to Same API

• MQI convergence: per-model baselines in transformed space shipped with staleness pill and multiclaude detection Fix C+D
• SKL articles pipeline parity: Tasks A1-E1 (Zod, HTTP layer, L4 attribution, L2 scoring, Phase-1 orchestration)

2026-W16 Apr 12, 2026

22 Passing Gates, 38.9% Broken Data

• 4,274 sessions across 7 days at $9,304.55 total: week MQI held 0.1661 in sustained error-status terrain
• Jobs-apply desktop-only pivot: middleware gates web to /settings, 80% attack-surface reduction

2026-W15 Apr 5, 2026

12,600 Lines of Rust in One Day: Knowledge Engine From Scratch

• Vault knowledge engine v1: 12,600 lines, 5 Rust crates, 20 MCP tools, live in production (Apr 8-9)
• jobs-apply hardened: Electron 30->41, R2 distribution, 4-layer tenant isolation, 762/762 tests (Apr 10-11)

2026-W14 Mar 29, 2026

LinkedIn 40% to 100%: Quality Ratcheting in 10 Runs

• LinkedIn Easy Apply ratchet closed at 100% (6/6) in Run 10, up from 40% at Run 1 across 18 days
• Rust migration confirmed across 3 crates (14.8k lines), all compile clean, ownership model eliminates PTY race conditions

2026-W13 Mar 22, 2026

333 Applications, Zero Interviews

• 333 applications, zero interviews: Gmail feedback loop discovered unwired
• DQI 0.9049 to 0.9790 across 6 Karpathy ratchet sessions

2026-W12 Mar 15, 2026

Five Experiments, Three Days, One Fixed Criterion

• Oil v13-v17 chain: MAE -49%, Brier +9.93pp vs Polymarket, autonomous hourly updates
• Sell model: 100% trigger accuracy, zero false sells, CVaR99 -24.6%

2026-W11 Mar 8, 2026

From Restartable Script to 24/7 Autonomous Engine

• Infinite run coordinator built: persistent multi-channel job engine with per-channel state machines, quiet hours, exponential backoff
• Direct channel 98% submission rate (48/49); Greenhouse 100% (10/10)

2026-W10 Mar 1, 2026

The Rename That Found a Real Bug

• PeonNotify v0.2.0: CodeGuard lint-before-AI-review gate, 7 languages, 3 new sounds
• Hunt-to-Run rename surfaces concurrent state isolation bug across 112 sessions

2026-W09 Feb 22, 2026

122K Lines Deleted: Red-Team Server to Visualization MCP

• redcorsair pivoted from 122K-line red-team server to R visualization MCP in a single commit
• AutoHunt monorepo scaffolded at 15,030 lines, 107 files, 9 packages, 10 platform adapters in one day

2026-W08 Feb 15, 2026

15,630 Output Tokens From 4 Input Tokens: Cached Context at Work

• 11 sessions across 3 active days; Feb 19-22 git-only (no session telemetry)
• brandhouse_ppt: 6,899 lines added across 26 files in a single chore commit

2026-W07 Feb 8, 2026

The Boiling Frog Attack: Why AI Safety Fails at Multi-Turn

• Cascade attack breakthrough: multi-turn > single-turn jailbreaks confirmed across all tested providers
• eval project: 65 sessions, $122.38: dominant cost driver at 74% of weekly spend

2026-W06 Feb 1, 2026

The 7,710-Line First Commit: When Design Is Fully Resolved Before Code

• brandhouse-ppt born as a 7,710-line 20-slide deck generator in a single initial commit (Feb 6), followed by URI-based batch pipeline the next day
• Personal session high-water mark: 413 sessions on Feb 4, $85.75, Opus 4.5 dominant

2026-W05 Jan 25, 2026

AI Model Escalation Is Demand-Driven, Not Supply-Driven

• Investor-research pipeline inaugurated: 479 sessions, $221.28, four consecutive active days
• Model-swap confirmed: Sonnet throughput sweep (Jan 29, 194 sessions) followed by Opus reasoning pass (Jan 30-31)

2026-W04 Jan 18, 2026

Zero Results, Zero Errors: Coordinate Standard Collisions

• 25 sessions, $11.00 total, 97.3% avg cache hit
• Single git commit: 3-line lat/lon swap fix in a geospatial nearby-entities query

2026-W03 Jan 11, 2026

PR #991, Zero Core Patches: Architecture Proven by a Stranger's Code

• Module split confirmed sound by external contributor PR #991 merging without core patches
• 55 sessions, $86.83 on capability expansion and release prep for 2026.1.14

2026-W02 Jan 4, 2026

The API Endpoint That Changed Everything: Protocol as Moat

• OpenAI-compatible HTTP gateway turns openclaw into a drop-in backend for the broader OpenAI tooling ecosystem
• Plugin architecture migration decouples providers from core; GitHub Copilot and Chutes shipped on day one of the new boundary

2026-W01 Dec 31, 2025

651 Commits, $0.53, Zero Telemetry: The Baseline Before the Baseline

• Onboarding wizard + remote CDP shipped together on New Year's Day in a single 8-minute session
• Coding-agent skill rewrite enforced temp-space boundary and collapsed model matrix to a single target