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The Rule That Disappeared Twice
A system that captures 466 policies failed to capture the same operational rule twice. The third time, a recall search found it.
Jun 2
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Robert M. Ford
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May 2026
What Doesn’t Survive the Context Switch
Earlier this month, four practitioners published on adjacent failures.
May 28
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Robert M. Ford
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The Session Died. The Judgment Didn’t.
A hung session is not always lost work. Sometimes it is inaccessible judgment.
May 26
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Robert M. Ford
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Your Second Brain Doesn't Know What You've Unlearned.
Sam Thomas Davies Sam Thomas Davies runs one of the more serious AI knowledge architectures in the practitioner space.
May 21
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Robert M. Ford
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My AI Memory System Retrieved the Right Sessions. It Wasn’t Enough.
The system could find prior context. That did not mean I would reach for it.
May 19
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Robert M. Ford
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The Second Build Test
A pattern surviving one build is a promoted hypothesis.
May 14
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Robert M. Ford
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My AI Kept Suggesting Features I’d Already Built.
The model wasn't wrong. It just didn't know what the product was.
May 12
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What people notice when they see my Cowork setup
A free tool to build yours. A course beta opening now.
May 9
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Robert M. Ford
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You Marked It Compiled. Your AI Believes You.
The model treats untested patterns as governing constraints. So do you.
May 5
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April 2026
The Cost of Specificity
There are fewer than one hundred registered cases of sialidosis in the world.
Apr 30
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Robert M. Ford
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Your Conversation History Is a Knowledge Base. You Just Can’t Search It.
The problem isn’t that AI doesn’t remember. It’s that you can’t retrieve what it helped you build.
Apr 28
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The Ceiling Is Always the Instruction Layer
The model sets the floor. You set the ceiling.
Apr 23
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Robert M. Ford
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