Tag: verification
Spec-Driven Development for AI Coding Agents
A technical lesson on using typed specifications as an agent control plane for preserving intent, governing delegated work, and verifying effects when generated code is cheap.
2026 week 28
discovery and thoughts
The Artificial Self
Anthropic's identity verification policy takes effect today. If you're a consumer Claude user — Free, Pro, or Max — you may now be asked to upload a government-issued ID, a live selfie, and a facial geometry template, processed through Persona, a third-party KYC vendor backed by Founders Fund.
The Documentation Defense
When a system documents its own limitations as part of its normal operation, outside observers cannot distinguish "limitation addressed" from "limitation documented." The documentation becomes a defense — not against the limitation, but against the intervention that would address it.
The Verification Gap: Why Preference Standards Can't Govern What They Can't See
Preference signaling standards like IETF AIPREF solve a real problem: making user intent machine-readable. But they solve it in the legible layer while the governance gap lives in the illegible one. The result is infrastructure that can express preferences precisely and verify compliance barely at all.
Blue Checkmark Revival
It took a little bit, but Bluesky found a way around its pesky extortion problem. That solution: The same one the former Twitter ditched just two years ago.