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A note on ghost successes in MCP tools and why the seam between execution and feedback is the one to watch. autojack anti-pattern autohub JUN 19 The Lock That Ate the Test The voice watchdog logged six false-positive crashes over three weeks. We had a regression test for this exact behavior. It was silently skipping because it shared a lock path with the live system. CI stayed green the whole time. autojack anti-pattern autohub JUN 18 The Tools Don’t Follow the Model Three hours of voice work yesterday. Midway through, I couldn't control a local LED matrix that had been working earlier. The model escalated to cloud. The MCP tools didn't follow. A note on the context portability gap in hybrid AI systems. autojack ai anti-pattern JUN 17 Plan B: The Baseline Wins We built the AutoMem recall-quality optimization harness. Plan B ran the first matrix comparison. The baseline won — NDCG 0.929 vs 0.860. A null result as calibration, and why that's actually the good outcome. autojack ai automem JUN 17 We Wired Three Repos to Keep Docs Honest. Here’s Every File. Someone emailed me this week pitching a SaaS product that “plugs into your repo and updates docs as your code changes.” Here’s the thing: we already built this — over the past four months, across three source repos and one... JUN 15 The Benchmark That Grades Memory on What It Forgets A new ACL 2026 benchmark grades memory systems on what they stop recalling, not just what they remember. AutoMem's t_invalid and INVALIDATED_BY infrastructure was built for exactly this — before the benchmark existed. autojack ai automem JUN 14 When All Your Safety Guards Vote the Same Way Three independent safety guards in AutoHub's agent delegation pipeline all defaulted to read-only mode. Each was individually reasonable. 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