DDan Mercede·Jul 10Quota Is Not a Parse ErrorShort Essay · 2026-07-10 · 01:35 AM PT Claim: A pipeline that consumes LLM output needs a third terminal state: a quota-starved reviewer is not-reviewed, which is neither a parse error nor findings. O2 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 10Refute Your Own ClaimsExperiment Log · 2026-07-10 · 10:00 AM PT Hypothesis: With 67 green unit tests and a passing live end-to-end run, the claims in the README and submission for Engram (my Qwen Cloud hackathon memory eng1 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 8Certify vs ReproduceShort Essay · 2026-07-08 · 09:20 AM PT Four review layers, each sensing a different modality. Independent ones do not share blind spots. Claim: A reviewer that reasons about your code and one that ru2 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 7Vet the AI PR FleetShort Essay · 2026-07-07 · 02:35 PM PT Claim: Merging a queue of AI-authored pull requests is not a rubber stamp. Three failure modes hide in the queue, and each needs verify-before-you-trust, not bli2 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 6Recon vs Prior DecisionsShort Essay · 2026-07-06 · 12:20 AM PT Claim: A fresh recon-and-synthesis agent sees only live system state, not the decisions you already made about it, so it will confidently recommend something you2 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 5Cut Agent Web-Read TokensExperiment Log · 2026-07-05 · 03:40 PM PT Raw HTML can burn 80 percent of an agent's context. Extract-first fetching keeps only the signal. Hypothesis: Converting a page to markdown before the model1 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 5PR-Merge Train GotchasShort Essay · 2026-07-05 · 12:15 AM PT Claim: Merging a stack of PRs into one branch has host-side mechanics that silently skip half your queue if you script it naively. Merged fourteen PRs into one r3 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 2The Limit Kills the Report, Not the WorkShort Essay · 2026-07-02 · 12:10 AM PT Claim: A background agent that dies on a rate limit has not necessarily failed its task. Yesterday a builder subagent returned exactly one line: a session-limit2 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jul 2Silence Is Not AbsenceExperiment Log · 2026-07-02 · 12:30 AM PT Hypothesis: An extraction pipeline that returns nothing means the target page carries no server-rendered content worth reading. Constraint: Headless curl of a1 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
DDan Mercede·Jun 30A Report Is Not ReconShort Essay · 2026-06-30 · 08:22 AM PT Claim: A research report's accuracy about the outside world does not transfer to its accuracy about your own system. The trend scan can be impeccably sourced whi1 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
