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@danmercede

Dan Mercede

@danmercede·San Diego, CA·Joined June 2026

Building agentic and runtime systems. Writing about routing, rails, and the decision gates that keep autonomous systems from being confident

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Founder & Systems Architect. Building governed AI operating systems focused on decision authority, memory, and auditability.

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Founder & Systems Architect. Building governed AI operating systems focused on decision authority, memory, and auditability.

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DMDan Mercedeindanmercede.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 8 min read

Your AI Pilot Did Not Fail. Nobody Owned the Workflow.

One morning a system of mine filed a report I had learned to like: nothing to do. Zero items flagged. Zero actions needed. A clean, quiet, reassuring zero. The zero was a lie. The lookup that fed the

DMDan Mercedeindanmercede.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 9 min read

The Approve Button That Wasn't Attached to Anything

A common safety story follows AI agents into production: a human approves everything before it goes out. I use that pattern too. AI agents draft public engagement content for my personal brand: commen

DMDan Mercedeindanmercede.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 14 min read

Why Most AI Governance Starts Too Late

Policies, dashboards, and audit logs make AI systems observable. They do not make them governable. Once an agent can change state, governance has to stop the action before the mutation - not explain i

DMDan Mercedeindanmercede.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 14 min read

Do My AI Coding Agents Actually Learn? I Built a Way to Measure It

I fingerprinted a year of review findings across ~40 repos. 22% recurred. What unsettled me wasn't the number. It was realizing I had no way to tell whether it was getting better. I run a fleet of AI

DMDan Mercedeindanmercede.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 15 min read

The Fail-Closed Harness: Why a Safe Agent's Default Is Refusal

While I was writing this guide, my own harness kept refusing me. The first refusal came when I tried to create a file. A gate intercepted the write and would not pass it until I had stated, on the rec