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 9Schema Is a Second SurfaceShort Essay · 2026-07-09 · 01:20 AM PT Claim: On a prerendered SPA, a copy reframe has to land on two independent surfaces, not one. The visible React copy auto-bakes into the crawler HTML. The head J2 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 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 4Benchmarks Evict Hot ModelsExperiment Log · 2026-07-04 · 12:15 AM PT Hypothesis: Benchmarking a locally-served LLM is read-only and won't disturb whatever model is already loaded on the GPU. Constraint: One 24GB GPU, a single ~1 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·Jul 1Recheck What You RejectedShort Essay · 2026-07-01 · 12:45 AM PT Claim: A negative decision stored in an agent's memory ('we evaluated X and rejected it') is the most dangerous kind of stale fact, because it reads as settled a2 min read·danmercede.hashnode.dev
