Notes

Writing

Short technical notes from real project work. Things I would have wanted to read before building.

• September 2026·4 min

  I built an approval system nobody could approve anything with

  A safety control that a human cannot operate is not a safety control, it is an outage. What I found the day after shipping an approval gate for a local AI agent platform.

• July 2026·4 min

  Role-aware rubrics: one prompt engine, thirty assessment shapes

  How HireIQ assesses everyone from career starters to sales leaders with a single prompting engine — by separating the rubric from the engine and injecting both at runtime.