Category: AI & Automation
Building, governing and testing AI and automated systems.
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Why AI Writing Has the Same Shape Every Time
Every article our system wrote had the same skeleton: a hook, three points, a tidy summary. Breaking that shape did more for sounding human than any word swap. Read more
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When an Automated Job Fails, Don’t Lose the Work
A scheduled job failed. The work didn’t disappear. One afternoon a scheduled job in our content pipeline stopped partway through. That kind of half-finish normally means lost work: the item vanishes into air, and someone has to notice later and recreate it. This time the item didn’t vanish. It dropped into a separate list where… Read more
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You Can’t Prompt Your Way Out of AI Hallucination
Can you prompt away AI hallucination? We caught one that looked correct. An editor handed back an article with a neat statistic: “43% of managers do X.” It read like journalism. It quoted no source. That percentage wasn’t in the fact file we had given the writer. It wasn’t anywhere in our sources. It was… Read more
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Why AI Writing Sounds Like AI (and What an Automated Editor Taught Us)
Why AI writing sounds like AI (and how to make AI content sound human) Most readers can feel a robotic voice before they can point to a specific sentence. The culprit is rarely single words. It’s structure. Rigid templates, predictable sentence rhythms, repeated three-item lists, and filler phrases create a steady hum that screams “generated.”… Read more
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The Compliance Illusion: Why Written Rules Fail Without Enforcement
Compliance illusion: when a written rule isn’t a rule Call it what it is. A rule that lives only as prose in a spreadsheet or handbook, and never changes how the system behaves, is theater. It looks like governance. It does not behave like it. The result is brittle safety where teams assume a guard… Read more