Anti-Pattern Teardown

One named failure, taken apart. What it looks like, why it ships, what it costs, and the architecture that prevents it.

Economic Architecture

They Hired Me to Build It. I Asked What If We Don't.

Aug 8, 2026

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3 min read

They Hired Me to Build It. I Asked What If We Don't.

Half a million dollars of budget, aimed at a category where the incumbents had raised hundreds of millions. Nobody had checked whether the thing already existed.

Reliability

I Questioned a Distillation Claim. The Post Disappeared.

Aug 8, 2026

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3 min read

I Questioned a Distillation Claim. The Post Disappeared.

Someone announced they had distilled a frontier model into something small enough to run locally, doing the same thing. One word in that claim is the word Theranos sold the world on.

Anti-Pattern Teardown

They Hired Me to Build It. I Asked What If We Don't.

I Questioned a Distillation Claim. The Post Disappeared.

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