Robin Cannon
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AI doesn’t go rogue
The AI saw the boundary. The system didn't give it a reason to stop.
Oct 6
No pre-existing audience
A new approach to customer enjoyment. Still in testing.
Oct 2
September 2026
Giving the agent something to lose
You could ask an agent if it failed. Or you could put a cost on that failure in the first place.
Sep 29
Nonblocking Variance [Part 2: No additional action required]
She filed the discrepancy. It started raining at three.
Sep 25
It’s almost never a tooling problem
Organizations know how to approve tools. AI exposes questions we never built a process for.
Sep 22
1
Two kinds of continuity
The project keeps a shared record. Team members keep their own memories.
Sep 19
Nonblocking Variance [Part 1: Manual verification]
Every gate passes. Every record checks out.
Sep 18
The AI stack is SCAMP
Five layers for when your AI actually has to work.
Sep 16
What the hell does “AI native” mean?
The machines can run it. We hope we can still understand it.
Sep 15
1
There’s Plenty
Door unlocked. Distribution unaccounted.
Sep 11
Building product management into infrastructure
When generation gets cheap, judgment gets more valuable.
Sep 8
Bird up
It means safe. Even if nobody remembers that.
Sep 4
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