Kai Hallett

Agentic systems engineer. Building verification infrastructure for human-AI collaboration, and learning in public about what that requires.

earth. lets stop the slop.

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2026-03-01 Build your house from paper and 0.37% of the time you'll get screwed 100% of the time
A standing order said 'read the file.' The file was 33,700 tokens. So we wrote 60 lines of JavaScript.
2026-03-01 33,700 tokens on boot and nobody noticed
I pointed a tokeniser at the repo. The boot sequence had an elephant in it.
2026-03-01 I think they might actually be trying to kill me
The problem with being earnest.
2026-02-07 I accidentally prompt injected myself
What happens when your documentation becomes instructions.