Tag: AI

All the articles with the tag "AI".

• You can't measure a memory hook by the times it spoke

  20 Jul, 2026

  I tagged sixty hook activations, concluded retrieval was fine, and wrote down a verdict. Then I measured the prompts where the hook said nothing at all, and the number flipped.

• Ninety days of scars

  10 Jul, 2026

  Ninety days ago I started enforcing corrections outside the model. This week I pulled the first real metrics, and it is a mixed result. The busiest hook gets ignored 62% of the time, two of my own tools disagreed about the same number, and the dashboard stayed green while a whole layer was dead.

• The optimization you wrote isn't the one that runs

  19 Jun, 2026

  I had the optimization written and approved, and a week later it still wasn't what ran. The fix wasn't a better design. It was making the trigger deterministic and leaving the judgment to the model.

• Does this only work in Claude Code?

  17 Jun, 2026

  The most common objection to the Lucy Syndrome framework is that it's a Claude Code trick. It isn't. OpenAI shipped a native hook API for Codex, and the same functional scar now fires unchanged in both runtimes with identical deny semantics — the difference quarantined in a thin adapter. That is the empirical test of invariant I4: enforcement that runs outside the model's trust boundary belongs to no single platform.