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System Logs

An archive of decisions, failures, changes, and shipped work. The record stays useful by keeping the sequence—and the limits—visible.

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A Button in an AI Answer Can Change State

What a button inside an AI-generated answer can actually do, and how to distinguish a visual control from an authorized change to another system.

Imagine asking an AI assistant what to do with excess inventory. It returns a neat table: move twelve units from Store A to Store B. Below it is a button labelled Approve transfer .

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A Synthetic Answer Is Not a User Finding

Synthetic UX participants can sharpen a research plan. Their plausible answers do not, by themselves, establish what real users did, felt or needed.

synthetic-usersux-researchevidence-validity
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The Requested Change Is Only Half the Proof

An analysis of why AI-assisted editing needs evidence for both the requested mutation and the constraints the edit was not authorized to change.

ai-editingpreservationchange-control
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AI Product Averages Hide the Run Users Actually Get

An analysis of why AI-product latency and output variance need distribution-level measurement instead of being hidden behind healthy averages.

ai-uxlatency-varianceproduct-trust
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The Host Surface Is Part of the Agent Contract

Embedding an agent in Slack, mobile, or another work surface changes more than the interface: it changes context, identity, triggers, visibility, authority, and the record left behind.

agent-interfacesembedded-agentsauthority
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The AI Edit Stayed Proposed Until Acceptance

An analysis of reviewable AI edits, exact proposal state, approval granularity, and the boundary between generating a change and making it authoritative.

reviewable-editsapproval-granularityproposal-state
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The Website Exposed an Agent Contract: WebMCP Makes It Concrete

A product-experience analysis of what changes when a website exposes structured tools directly to agents: less interaction guesswork, but a new contract for semantics, authority, validation, and inspectable results.

webmcpagent-interfacesauthority-boundaries