Ken W Alger

I went looking for a better runtime check and found a different way to think about the problem. I...

Part 6 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series At the end of the last article, I left one...

Because "we'll be in touch" is not an observable state. I submitted a job application recently. It...

Building a Write-Side Custody gate in Go AI memory systems spend most of their design budget on...

Part 5 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series The previous articles introduced the Reasoning...

A companion to Part 4 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series. Part 4.5 of the series. Part 4...

The memory store may know the truth. The interface may be throwing it away. This piece grew out of a...

Part 4 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series After finishing the previous article, I looked at...

What happens when a thousand independent sources turn out to have one parent? A while back I went...

Giving someone access to the AI control plane is not the same as deciding which parts of it they are...

There is a moment in every high-stakes environment when something goes completely, objectively wrong,...

Part 3 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series After finishing Part 2, I noticed something. The...

(Orchestration and the Yield Calculator) We have scanned the geometry of the oak. We have...

API keys authenticate software. Policy objects decide what that software is allowed to do. The...

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art. ...

(Agentic Memory and the Digital Passport) In moving into the workshop, we’re working on a...

(Computer Vision and the Material Memory of Oak) The harvest is tucked away in the cellar,...

Governance decides what AI is allowed to do. The gateway only enforces it. Every technology shift...

Part 2 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series When I published the first article in this series,...

(The Final Gamble and the Zero-Waste Finale) The primary harvest is over. The bins are...

One of the most common misconceptions in modern AI is that a larger context window somehow "solves"...

(Provenance, Logistics, and the Unbroken Chain) Our last post on a Pivot Engine identified a 96 hour...

(Connecting the Local Twin to the Global Market) In our last post, we built the “Digital...

Pattern Defined Precise Definition: Agent Tool-Calling is an inference pattern where the model is...

(Identity, Input, and the Digital Twin of the Dirt) We’ve spent the last month teaching an...

In July of 1776, an experimental political concept was ratified on the extreme edge of the known...

A Cold Root Beer and a Small System It’s starting to get warmer out. Which, at least for...

Pattern Defined Precise Definition: Hybrid Retrieval is an inference pattern that combines semantic...

We’ve spent the last few weeks teaching an AI to read 19th-century cursive and build a social graph....

Recently I came across a discussion about AI crawlers and robots.txt files. The conversation centered...