Strand · PROC
AI & Work
8 essays, April 2026 to October 2026. They test Instruments Over Theory (2), Architecture Outlives Content (2), Bottleneck Migration (1) and Difficulty Is Load-Bearing (1). 98 claims across 4 of them are checked against a primary source in the public ledger.
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- AI Can Take the Practice Without Taking the Job The practice that builds judgement can disappear while every junior keeps their seat. This audit checks whether it has on your team. 67 sourced claims
- You Own an Asset You've Never Scored The file your agent reads first is capital. Score it out of sixteen, fix the thinnest mark, and run the one check that tells you whether the spec, not the model, was your limit.
- Your Multi-Agent System Is an Org Chart Cognition said don't build them. Anthropic said do. A year on, they converge on the one question that decides it. 9 sourced claims
- Self-Improvement Is Release Engineering Your agent can rewrite its own memory and skills overnight. The hard part is whether you can see what changed and take it back. That makes self-improvement a release-engineering problem.
- Skills Are Package Management for Your AI There are millions of agent skill files to choose from. The hard part is deciding which deserve trust, how to version them, and how to retire them. 8 sourced claims
- Remembers Everything, Learns Nothing You gave your agent a memory and it still repeats the same mistake. What makes it improve is a loop that tests each failure and turns the ones that recur into procedures.
- Same Model, Different Product: The Case for Harness Engineering Hold the model fixed and the surrounding harness can still move task success, cost and reliability. Here are the layers that do it. 14 sourced claims
- Prompting Isn't Writing, It's Compilation If you treat the prompt as a spec and the model as a renderer, quality stops coming from more words and starts coming from better constraints.