AI Systems
Autonomous Agents Need Epistemology, Not Parameters
The bottleneck in autonomous agents is epistemic competence, not capability. Implementing uncertainty quantification markedly reduced confidently wrong actions.
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Jul 07, 2026
Philosophy
Popper’s Falsifiability and Your A/B Test
A hypothesis that cannot fail is not a hypothesis. Popper's falsifiability criterion reveals why most A/B tests produce confirmation, not knowledge.
Jun 19, 2026
Philosophy
Religious Anti-Realism and Engineering Temperament
The engineering mindset demands testable claims. Intellectual honesty demands acknowledging that empiricism has boundaries, not that everything beyond them is nothing.
Jun 18, 2026
Philosophy
Epistemology of Metrics: What We Measure and Know
Most organizations confuse measurement with understanding. The epistemology of metrics reveals the gap between data on a dashboard and actual knowledge.
Apr 27, 2026
AI Systems
The Productivity Placebo: METR’s AI Coding Study
METR's randomized trial found AI tools made experienced developers slower while they believed the tools made them faster. The perception gap demands investigation.
Apr 13, 2026
Process
Estimation Is Epistemology: Confidence Intervals
Estimation is a question of what you know. Teams with calibrated confidence intervals land close to their estimates more reliably than gut-feel teams do. The…
Apr 10, 2026
Philosophy
Imposter Syndrome as Socratic Wisdom
Imposter syndrome is the emotional experience of Socratic wisdom without the framework to recognize it as virtue. The doubt is the competence.
Mar 19, 2026
Architecture
Observability as Epistemology for Distributed Systems
Observability is epistemology for distributed systems. Logs, metrics, and traces construct knowledge about systems too complex for direct inspection.
Mar 17, 2026
Data
Goodhart’s Law and the Weaponization of KPIs
Goodhart's Law states that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. When a metric becomes a target, it stops…
Mar 12, 2026
AI Systems
Hallucination Is Not a Bug
Language model hallucination is treated as a defect, but it is a fundamental property of probabilistic text generation. Models will always produce confident, occasionally fictional…
Mar 12, 2026