Notes on automation, governance, and building systems that maintain themselves.
Most automation platforms force you into one model: fully manual or fully autonomous. The research says the best approach is somewhere in between — and the infrastructure shouldn't force you to choose.
The first number you hear sets a reference point that everything after is measured against. It's one of the most robust findings in behavioral economics — and it operates whether you notice it or not.
We don't have case studies. We don't have a GitHub portfolio. What we have is three years of private development and a production system that runs our own operations every day.
Loss aversion is one of the most robust findings in behavioral science: pain of loss is roughly 2x more powerful than pleasure of gain. The same principle applies to how you design autonomous systems.