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Howardism · Vol. 03Plate I · No. 01

Writing, in order.

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Plate · 01 of 04
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concept notes

Concept, in order.

Product & Org17
  1. 01
    Prototype Fidelity After Cheap Polish
    Design ProcessPrototypingResearch Agenda+1
    · 10′
  2. 02
    Standardize the Infrastructure, Not the Tools
    AI Native OrganizationEngineering LeadershipPlatform+1
    · 6′
  3. 03
    Community Smells Under AI Adoption
    Team DynamicsOrganizationCollaboration+2
    · 12′
  4. 04
    Excellence as an Operating System
    CultureTalent DensityOrg Design
    · 6′
  5. 05
    Systems Thinking Over Specialization
    Team DesignHiringPlatform Engineering+1
    · 11′
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Plate · 02 of 04
79
entity notes

Entity, in order.

  1. E01
    Bridgewater Associates
    EntityOrganizationFinance+1
    · 8′
  2. E02
    Aakanksha Chowdhery
    EntityPersonResearcher+2
    · 20′
  3. E03
    Azalia Mirhoseini
    EntityPersonResearcher+2
    · 15′
  4. E04
    CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents (Stanford)
    EntityDocumentCourse+2
    · 54′
  5. E05
    US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)
    EntityOrgAI Evaluation+2
    · 5′
  6. E06
    Greptile
    EntityCode ReviewVendor
    · 4′
  7. E07
    Transluce
    EntityOrgAI Evaluation+2
    · 6′
  8. E08
    LlamaIndex
    RetrievalDocument ParsingAgent Engineering+1
    · 5′
  9. E09
    Jeff Dean
    EntityPersonGoogle+2
    · 8′
  10. E10
    Elon Musk
    EntityPersonFounder+1
    · 10′
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Plate · 03 of 04
47
essay pieces

Essay, in order.

  1. S01
    The Configuration Gap: What an Assurance Argument Measures vs What It Covers
    · 24′
  2. S02
    The Price of Mixing Agents, and the Principal Nobody Counted
    · 26′
  3. S03
    Safety Commitments That Cannot Bind the Actor Who States Them
    DerivedGovernanceAI Policy+2
    · 20′
  4. S04
    The Data Wall and the Validation Commons Are One Supply Constraint
    DerivedData WallVerification+3
    · 22′
  5. S05
    Governance by Benchmark Threshold: What an Index Must Prove Before an Obligation Can Rest on It
    · 28′
  6. S06
    Guarantees That Degrade at Deployment: Action-Space Soundness, Admissibility Without Effect, and a Vendor-Coupled Security Framework
    DerivedAgent EngineeringSecurity+3
    · 33′
  7. S07
    Auditing the Misalignment-Measurement Instruments
    · 27′
  8. S08
    What the Instrument Can Resolve: Two Headline Numbers and Their Missing Denominators
    · 28′
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Plate · 04 of 04
16
index notes

Index, in order.

  1. I01
    Open Questions Backlog
    · 94′
  2. I02
    Open Questions Dashboard
    · 3′
  3. I03
    Interpretability
    · 4′
  4. I04
    Agent Security
    · 13′
  5. I05
    Agent Systems & Harness Engineering
    · 29′
  6. I06
    AI Coding Practice
    · 18′
  7. I07
    AI Economics & Labor
    · 12′
  8. I08
    Alignment & Safety
    · 21′
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