I'm John. I work on AI systems — the practical engineering underneath model behavior: evaluation, tool use, agent loops, the places where probability meets production code.

This is where I write about it. Mostly notes from things that surprised me, occasionally longer pieces when something is worth working out in public.

Recent writing

  1. 13 Tessera: a machine-checked false-alarm guarantee for GPU fleets
  2. 12 Show me the math
  3. 11 Three passes, one fail: pre-registering the validation of a capacity planner
  4. 10 A flat datacenter network has no hierarchy to blame
  5. 09 A cheap model with a hard gate beats a frontier model with a good prompt

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