Behavioural inference, controlled decoys, and some rather sneaky 404s. Someone requests a PHP file from your site. It doesn't exist. You return a 404. A little later, someone else requests the same file. Different address, different user agent. Same small…
Updated - 27 October 2026. Original was published Nov 2025 - Corrected bundle options and added current EF Core 9/10 guidance, Aspire integration and clearly marked EF Core 11 preview features. See the errata at the end for corrections to the original version.…
COMING SOON - Working on the nuget package, stay tuned! In Part 4, the recommendation became an intervention. We characterised a proposed change, applied it under an experiment and learned from the observed response. An email could be a candidate in the same…
The “mind control” in the title is a joke about a familiar ambition: put the right thing in front of someone at the right moment and change what they do next. Most of us have ignored enough perfectly timed marketing emails to know how unreliable that ambition…
In Part 2, we turned an entity's characterisation into recommendations. We could watch a session change, find eligible products, and explain which representations contributed to the ranking. Now we want to use that history to answer a more useful business…
I've been writing about systems whose interesting behaviour happens over time. A shopper compares something, adds it to their basket, then disappears. A gateway observes a request, accumulates evidence, and decides whether the origin application should ever…
“How do I vectorise this?” This is an optional bridge between Part 1 and Part 2. It focuses on producing coordinates for properties we cannot read directly from a database field or event counter. Take a voice message. Is this message aggressive? The transcript…
In Part 1, we looked at how to characterise an entity. We chose observations, encoded the relationships we cared about, and used vectors and centroids to summarise what we had seen. That entity could be a shopper, a service or a device. Now we can ask the next…
You buy a kettle, and the shop spends the next fortnight recommending kettles. You browse a birthday present, and suddenly your entire personality is scented candles. Meanwhile, the thing you actually came back to find is three pages down. Recommendation…
This is the next instalment in both the StyloAgent and GEPA article series. It continues The StyloAgent Workflow, Part 2 and Evolving Decision Policies with GEPA and Decision Models, bringing persistent agent coordination and evaluated policy evolution…
In the previous part, we checked whether generated prose contains an answer and whether evidence supports its claims. We kept those checks separate from whether the answer reads well. Now suppose those checks keep finding the same mistakes: assistance becomes…
How do we check that generated prose contains the right information, rather than merely sounding like a good answer? Ask an agent for a refund status when the authoritative tool says pending. “Your refund is complete” answers the question but contradicts the…
lucidRESUME needs to turn one complete career transcript into distinct, credible résumés. Select an applied-AI job: foreground agent architecture, evaluation and tool controls. Select a database job: foreground queries and performance. An early version found…
The first form extracts perfectly. Then the address moves, the label changes, or the next document calls it something else. We add another rule. This series explores how to retain what those exceptions teach us: the structure we want, the evidence that…
In Part 1, I suggested a fairly simple approach to interviewing developers: prepare properly, make the process clear, and let candidates discuss code they understand. Then explore the decisions behind it. I'm now researching how parts of that process could be…
In the first StyloMail article, I used Jev to ask specific questions about email and get typed, probabilistic answers back. Nimble, from Bespoke Labs, brings that technique to a model I can host myself through Ollama. From C#, I can send the same kind of state…
Bit of an odd one today; thought I'd share how I spec new work. The text below is NOT an article, it's a research paper which I'll convert to a spec. I spent about 3 days so far on the idea. See Part 1 for how this started. Part 2 covers using Nimble from C#,…
Scott Galloway | Hands-on Engineering Leader | Principal Engineer | Systems Architect | AI Systems Engineer I build systems, and I lead the people who build them. Across more than 30 years in software, I have worked as a developer, architect, engineering lead,…
I asked lucidRESUME for an Engineering Lead résumé. It produced two pages covering six relevant roles, two recent projects and the skills which mattered to the target. The prose was the prose I had already reviewed. Twenty-eight inline links connected the…
Every recruitment site performs the same little confidence trick: Please upload your CV. Splendid. Now type your CV into these boxes. Name. Email. Phone. GitHub. Current employer. Describe your leadership. Do you need sponsorship? What salary do you want?…