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Laws & Principles

One law, earned and defended. The short-form lane for the doctrine's canonical rules and the reasoning behind them.

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What the Federal Reserve Teaches You About AI That Grades Itself

Aug 31, 2026

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8 min read

What the Federal Reserve Teaches You About AI That Grades Itself

Six men wrote a central bank on a private island in 1910. The clause that killed their plan is the one that decides whether your AI evaluation means anything.

Chris Morancie
Chris Morancie

Laws & Principles

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You Didn't Become the Architect. The Handoff Got Cheap.

Aug 30, 2026

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6 min read

You Didn't Become the Architect. The Handoff Got Cheap.

One of the four things a role boundary sells got cheap. Teams are removing all four, and the bill arrives on three different timelines.

Chris Morancie
Chris Morancie

Laws & Principles

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The Cost of Doing Something

Aug 29, 2026

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8 min read

The Cost of Doing Something

The best move for a goalkeeper is standing still. Your AI programme has the same problem on three floors.

Laws & Principles

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Manual QA Almost Disappeared. It Started Before Any Code Was Written.

Aug 25, 2026

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11 min read

Manual QA Almost Disappeared. It Started Before Any Code Was Written.

Three apps into production in three months. This is the prompt that runs before any of it, in full.

Chris Morancie
Chris Morancie

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Can You Make More Money With the Same Money?

Aug 8, 2026

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3 min read

Can You Make More Money With the Same Money?

Small companies track the wrong things when they adopt AI. There is one number that compounds, and going from $100,000 per employee to $300,000 changes what the business is.

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The Luckiest Idiot in Business History

Aug 8, 2026

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5 min read

The Luckiest Idiot in Business History

Timothy Dexter shipped coal to Newcastle and made money. Everyone decided he was lucky. I think we call it luck because we cannot see where the information came from, and that has a lot to do with who builds the next wave of AI companies.

Chris Knows Production AI

AI didn't make engineering principles less important. It made the ones we took for granted matter more. Production AI is the architecture, tradeoffs, and judgment that separate demos from systems that survive production. Written for engineers, and the leaders responsible for them.

© 2026 Chris Knows Production AI.
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