On building software and the decisions behind it
In August 2022, before I was using AI this way, I wrote: “Computers do what we tell them to. We’re just not always clear with what we’re asking for.”
Building with AI has only made that more obvious.
In fact, it made something else clear too: even when we think we are being clear, there is still a lot of room for a system to interpret the request in ways that are technically valid and product-wise wrong.… Read more
Most document systems are built for storage and extraction.
That is the wrong goal.
In high-trust environments, the real job is not to collect documents or parse fields. It is to determine whether the available evidence actually supports a claim.
That is a different system.
Organizations generate endless documentation: invoices, contracts, certifications, logs, reports, statements, attestations.… Read more
Scheduled financial transfers sound simple. A customer creates an instruction — for example, “transfer $100 every week” — and the system processes the transaction on the appropriate day.
Many systems begin with a straightforward implementation. A daily job reads instructions from a database, generates transactions, and attempts to process them. For a small system this can work well enough.… Read more